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HUD Official Eyes Fines in NYCHA Attempted Sex Abuse Case

by Greg B. Smith April 8, 2019, 6:53 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 7:24 a.m.

A top federal housing official is considering seeking steep fines against two NYCHA workers after THE CITY revealed one of the men was arrested on attempted sexual assault charges while on the job. Lynne Patton, regional administrator of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s New York office, said in a tweet Monday she […]

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On-Duty NYCHA Repairman Charged With Sex Abuse in Tenant’s Apartment

by Greg B. Smith April 8, 2019, 4:05 a.m.April 6, 2020, 4:57 p.m.

It was the coldest day of the year, in the depths of the polar vortex, as tenants in more than 10,000 public housing apartments shivered amid heat outages across the city. That’s when two New York City Housing Authority workers — on call as part of the agency’s ramped-up effort to combat the deep freeze […]

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