Helm isn't the only woman to have accused Greene of inappropriate behavior.
Jenelle Scott, who worked as one of Greene's administrative assistants for seven years, said she filed a complaint against Greene with both the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and EEOC, claiming that he went on a tirade, verbally abused her and bellowed so close to her face that he spit on her lip.
One late afternoon in late summer 2008, Greene told her to ask his driver to come upstairs and help answer the phones, she said.
"Nothing was going on so the driver went back downstairs," Scott said yesterday.
Greene flew into a rage when he found the driver had left, she said. "He came up to me and he started yelling at me so loudly. 'What did I say?' he screamed. 'Is that how you choose to listen to me?'
"He stood over me and he yelled so loud that spit flew out of his mouth and onto my lip."
Scott said that an EEOC employee told her that investigators couldn't substantiate her charges.
Scott said she went out on stress leave for about 30 days. "When I came back he had me transferred to Section 8," she said, referring to the department that handles federally subsidized housing. "That's where he sent everyone as punishment.
"When he felt someone betrayed him, he punished them," she said. "No one could tolerate him."
Scott said she left PHA in April.
Two other former PHA employees, Carolyn Griffith and Melissa Shingles, filed sexual-harassment complaints with the EEOC in October 2004, according to Powers.
Greene has not been seen publicly since news broke last week that his $615,000 Naval Square townhouse was in foreclosure. Court documents show that Greene stopped making mortgage payments in April. Wells Fargo Bank filed the foreclosure action against Greene in late July, claiming that he owed nearly $387,000.
Court records also show that the IRS in December filed a roughly $52,000 tax lien against Greene for his failing to pay taxes on "small business/self-employed" income for 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006. Greene paid off the federal tax lien in March, records show.
Greene earns $306,370 and received a $44,188 bonus last year.
In a news release yesterday, Greene claimed to have caught up with his mortgage payments and was paid through October. PHA did not yesterday provide documentation to verify the payments.
Staff writer John Baer contributed to this report.
