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At Phila Housing Authority: Humiliation, groping, banishment
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 29 Aug 2010 | Jennifer Lin, Craig R. McCoy, and Nancy Phillips

Posted on 08/29/2010 12:17:46 PM PDT by grace522

As head of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, Carl R. Greene presided over a workplace of fear.

For women, his subordinates say, there could be ogling, groping, and pressure for sex.

For men and women alike, there were insults and humiliation.

"You're stupid. You're lazy. I can't believe your parents wasted college education on you," Greene yelled at one young aide, she recalled. "I can't believe you're so incompetent."

She left his sixth-floor office in tears, mascara streaming down her cheeks.

Greene called out after her, telling his assistant: "Fix her up. Get her some makeup. I don't want her to leave the office looking like that."

That was the world that Greene created within PHA. While menacing public housing towers were imploded across Philadelphia, careers were ruined inside PHA's headquarters on 23d Street in Center City.

"I've never worked somewhere where I've seen so many professionals crying," said one former PHA executive.

Greene, once hailed as one of the nation's top public housing directors, was suspended last week amid disclosures that PHA had agreed to pay at least $900,000 to settle four sexual-harassment complaints filed against him.

The agency's five board members are investigating whether Greene hid the payouts from them. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has ordered an immediate audit of PHA operations, and the U.S. Attorney's Office, working with the FBI and the HUD inspector general, has launched a criminal probe.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; greene; pha; philadelphia
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This guy was recruited bt Ed Rendell from Detroit despite already having multiple pensing sexual harrassment lawsuits. Rendell is dirty in this as well. By the way, ALL DEMOCRATS!
1 posted on 08/29/2010 12:17:50 PM PDT by grace522
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To: grace522

Ah, yes, the woman-friendly Democrats...but not in a good way.


2 posted on 08/29/2010 12:20:32 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: grace522

They can always give up their jobs if they do not like it.


3 posted on 08/29/2010 12:20:43 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: grace522

Another day, another low-life Democrat.


4 posted on 08/29/2010 12:21:27 PM PDT by pallis
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To: grace522

Carl R Greene

5 posted on 08/29/2010 12:22:30 PM PDT by blam
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To: grace522

by — pending. Sorry


6 posted on 08/29/2010 12:23:21 PM PDT by grace522 (your wallet is in jeopardy with democrats in office)
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To: grace522

His house is also being foreclosed on. What a jerk!


7 posted on 08/29/2010 12:28:46 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: grace522

When convicted, he should be sentanced to house arrrest, with ankle bracelet, in a ground floor apartment in one of his housing projects. Give him a broom and an EBT card.


8 posted on 08/29/2010 12:28:51 PM PDT by maine yankee
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Mr. Green is probably wondering what all the hubbub is about. This kind of treatment and abuse goes on behind closed doors in many homes, but I believe it's especially prevalent in black culture and within black families. Mr. Green, like too many, probably thinks it's normal because it's probably what he was raised with.

Bill Cosby has tried to deal with what many wish to not talk about - the self-hatred, abuse, and dysfunction in black culture and families.

9 posted on 08/29/2010 12:29:27 PM PDT by Jim W N
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The sad thing is there shouldn’t even be a PHA! Thousands taking money from tax payers, while hundreds or thousands more take money to HELP the thousands taking money.


10 posted on 08/29/2010 12:29:32 PM PDT by albie
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“They can always give up their jobs if they do not like it.”

Did you really just say that?


11 posted on 08/29/2010 12:29:43 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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To: grace522

Will anything stick to Rendell?


12 posted on 08/29/2010 12:29:49 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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Not in Philadelphia where the Stockhold syndrome runs deep


13 posted on 08/29/2010 12:37:58 PM PDT by grace522 (your wallet is in jeopardy with democrats in office)
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To: grace522

Stockholm Syndrome - Fat fingers today.


14 posted on 08/29/2010 12:38:37 PM PDT by grace522 (your wallet is in jeopardy with democrats in office)
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To: blam

Billie! Billie Buckwheat Thomas! Is that you?


15 posted on 08/29/2010 12:39:31 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: grace522

It looks like Carl R. Green is graduate of the Kwami Kilpatrick school of public service.


16 posted on 08/29/2010 12:48:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (It's easy being a communist when you're rich.)
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To: grace522

The Peter Principle demonstrated.


17 posted on 08/29/2010 12:49:09 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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Another victim of the CIA run plot to oppress and destroy African-Americans!


18 posted on 08/29/2010 12:57:05 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Decriminalize crime! Empty the prisons! Anything less is racist genocide!)
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He coulda been a pimp, but he didn’t have the personality for it....


19 posted on 08/29/2010 1:01:14 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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I would suspect this guy is a Democrat as well

http://politifi.com/news/Detroit-School-Board-President-Otis-Mathis-rescinds-resignation-cites-health-problems-for-habitually-masturbating-in-front-of-Superintendent-830950.html


20 posted on 08/29/2010 1:46:33 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ( VIVA la SB 1070!)
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