UPDATE: Indicted housing authority director still on the job
Operations of the agency 'are ongoing as they have been,' says board member
JoAnn Johnson Davis, the executive director of the Chatham County Housing Authority. FROM CHATHAM COUNTY WEBSITE
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2023 6:22 pm
Updated: Friday, March 3, 2023 4:12 pm
BY SEAMUS HUGHES & BILL HORNER III News + Record Staff
SILER CITY — The executive director of the Chatham County Housing Authority was arrested Friday as part of a wide-ranging federal investigation into more than $200,000 in kickbacks and payoffs from bogus projects initiated from her Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office responsible for providing housing to low-income families, the elderly, and disabled.
Prosecutors say JoAnn Johnson Davis, who has run CCHA since July 2012, used her position and her Siler City office to fraudulently award contracts for services — including housing inspections, staff training and client workshops — to friends and family members. In return, Davis allegedly received “kickbacks” from those friends and family members — allowing them to keep small percentages of the payments after they returned most of the cash to her — even though the services were never performed for the housing authority.
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