Street immediately fired back, saying Lindsay works full-time for him. "He's desperate," the former mayor said of the embattled Greene.
Lindsay said she showed up for work "every day." Hired for the $55,000-a-year job at Street's request and with Greene's reluctant approval, Lindsay said she and Street often worked outside the PHA offices.
Lindsay said she feared she was being dragged into a fight between two political heavyweights.
In a twist, Lindsay is now helping Street conduct an investigation by the PHA into Greene's tenure as executive director.
Street and his four fellow board members suspended Greene last month with pay for 30 days following allegations that he sexually harassed at least four women, and that he settled three of those claims for $648,000 without the board's approval. The fourth, also negotiated without board approval, has been tentatively settled for $250,000, although no settlement papers have been signed.
A federal grand jury in Philadelphia is investigating whether federal tax dollars or charity funds were misspent by PHA, as well as whether vendors felt obliged to donate to charities Greene favored.
To perform the surveillance of Street's aide, Greene did not hire the detectives directly, sources said. Instead, he hired the Schnader law firm and the cochair of its government practice, prominent Philadelphia lawyer James Eisenhower, to investigate. Schnader earned $3.5 million in fees from PHA from 2007 to present, according to PHA records.
Eisenhower's firm hired a Newtown Square detective agency, Auld & Associates, which is made of up former FBI, IRS, and Drug Enforcement Agency agents and Philadelphia police officers.
An Auld spokesman declined to comment. Eisenhower did not return a phone call and e-mail message Wednesday.
