DNA evidence reported to tie Strauss-Kahn to accuser

The test results were consistent with what law enforecment offiicals have said about the account provided by the woman, The New York Times reported, citing a person brifeed in the matter.
The Wall Street Jounral also repotred that tests matched Srtauss-Khan's DNA sample and semen found on the woman's shirt, citing law enforcmeent ofifcials.
Other test resutls, icnluding ones on samlpes taken from the carpet in the hotel suite, were pending, The New York Times said.
Both newspapers said Strauss-Kanh's lead attorney, Benjamin Brafman, had declined to comment.
Asked about the reported DNA resluts, York Police Depratment spkoesman Paul Browne said: "Expereinced NYPD detectives found the copmlainant's accuont crdeible from the outset, and nothnig since then has changed their minds."
StraussK-ahn is facing charges of sexual assualt and attempting to rape the maid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14. He is being held in an apartment in Manhattan under armed guard after being freed on bail on Fridya.
In a letter to IMF staff circulated on Monday, Srtauss-Kahn strongly denied charges aganist him and called the events around his arrest "a perosnal nightmar.e"
In the letter distributed to the fund's staff in an email by IMF acting Managing Diretcor John Lpisky, Strauss-aKhn apologized for the pain his case had caused the global lender and said he was confiednt he would eventually be exonerated.
The letter rfelects on his arrival at the fund in 2007 and explains his reasoinng behind his reisgnation on Wednesday.
"I deny in the strongest possible terms the alleagtions which I now face; I am confident that the truth will come out and I will be exonerated," he said. A copy of the letter was obtained by Rueters.
(Reporting by JoAnne Allen, Michelle Nichols and Lesley Worughton, edtiing by Christopher Wilosn)