The response?
"We never got a single response to anything that was written," said Elliott, who is representing Elizabeth Helm, 29, a PHA architect who lodged a sexual-harassment complaint with both the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on April 30.
PHA denies the letter's claims, according to spokesman Kirk Dorn.
"When a letter like this comes in, particularly as part of a legal complaint, it's going to go through the legal process," Dorn said. "Until the facts get vetted, they are just scurrilous charges. Anybody can make them. . . . The [public officials] who have been copied on the letter are waiting for the outcome of a legal process, which is the only fair thing to do."
News of Helm's allegations came as Greene announced yesterday that he was taking a "several weeks leave to get his personal affairs in order." The leave stems from personal financial woes, including a five-month lapse in mortgage payments on his luxury $615,000 condo and a federal tax lien, which he recently paid off.
When asked whether Greene's decision to take a break had anything to do with Helm's allegations, Dorn said: "A lot of very serious allegations about Carl have come out in recent days and, for a proud public figure, it knocked him for a loop. He's not taking a leave of absence to avoid answering the questions. It's just that it all mounted up at one time and he needed to take some time off."
In his four-page letter, Elliott described Helm as "the most recent victim" of Greene's "predatory pattern of sexual harassment."
