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Article: Audit Slaps at Philadelphia Housing Authority for 'Unfair' Hirings.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2002
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Byline: Ken Dilanian
Mar. 29--The Philadelphia Housing Authority paid a Detroit human-resources consultant $192,000 for nine months' work, then hired her to a $95,000-a-year job, and then improperly paid her expenses to move back to Detroit after just eight months, according to a strongly worded report released yesterday by federal auditors.
That "questionable" arrangement, the report said, is an example of a pattern of "unfair hiring practices" by Carl R. Greene, the Housing Authority's executive director.
Although the report, by the Department of Housing and Urban Development's inspector general, alleges no violation of law, it recommends ...