Housing board to call special meeting

The Morgan City Housing Authority board chairman expects to call a special meeting soon to discuss the indictments of the authority’s former director, an ex-housing manager and two current employees, he said this morning.
Chairman Victory Ho didn’t specify how soon that meeting may take place. The board’s regular monthly meeting was scheduled for Thursday, but the board didn’t meet because there wasn’t a quorum. Only two of the five board members showed up.
The board’s Thursday meeting agenda didn’t have any items pertaining to the indictments.
On Feb. 18, a federal grand jury indicted former Executive Director Charles E. Spann, former housing manager Tori D. Johnson, accounting tech Diana L. Pace and housing manager Sandra L. Greene on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The indictment also named Pace and Greene in 14 counts of theft of government money. Johnson faces 12 counts of theft of government money, and Spann was indicted on five counts of theft of government money.
Pace and Greene, both classified as civil service employees, are still employed with housing authority.
From 2007 through 2013, Spann, Johnson, Pace, Greene and others allegedly conspired with one another “to commit offenses against the United States,” by issuing and receiving over $500,000 in bonus payments to which they weren’t entitled, the indictment stated.
Spann served as executive director from April 2007 until June 2013 when he resigned. Johnson resigned before Spann did, The Daily Review reported in June 2013.