JULIE SHAW
Philadelphia Daily News
December 17, 2009
[efoods]Nine city workers who were assigned to clean up blight in Northeast Philadelphia instead acted like a “band of brigands” by illegally entering homes and ransacking them of cash, jewelry, TVs and guns, District Attorney Lynne Abraham said yesterday.
The nine are current or former employees of the Department of Licenses and Inspections or the Mayor’s Office of Community Services who were assigned to the Community Life Improvement Program (CLIP), an anti-blight program supervised by the Managing Director’s Office.
From June 2006 to January 2008, the nine conspired “to invade people’s homes” to steal whatever they could, Abraham said at a news conference while announcing the results of a grand-jury investigation into the case.
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