NEWBURGH – Newburgh Housing Authority Board Member Lillie Howard Thursday charged there is some \”hanky-panky\” going on at the agency administrative level and she wants to know what it is.
Howard was one of the board majority members who voted to fire Executive Director Lawrence Jackson last month after they learned he had been working there for some two years without a signed contract. On Thursday, Howard learned Jackson was being brought back to his old job, apparently in a vote taken without her being notified.
Howard is concerned about a number of issues including that NHA Section Eight residents are being charged 40 percent of the rent while others under Section Eight only pay 30 percent.
There is also an issue of whether the authority owns HUD some $700,000.
\”Evidently that statement that HUD made that Newburgh Housing Authority Newburgh Housing Authority owned them $700,000, that money is being paid back and I suspect that it is being done through the Section Eight tenants,\” Howard said.
Howard said she wanted to get to the bottom of what is going on and may ask the Orange County District Attorney’s Office to explore possible criminality.
No one from the Newburgh Housing Authority was available at press time for comments.
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