Supervisor implicated in Oakland Housing Authority corruption

During April of 2005, the OHA announced that a former employee, Carolyn Wilson, was involved in fraud and theft during the process of moving the 34 families into their public housing units. At the same time, the OHA is also claiming that the 34 families are in some manner responsible for the fraud committed by its own agent. Recently, OHA Police investigators were forced to serve a search warrant on the very agency they are paid to serve, which points to a lack of cooperation by OHA officials with the OHA Police.

A search warrant affidavit filed in Alameda County on May 10, 2006, seeks permission from the court for the seizure of electronic computer property from the Oakland Housing Authority, pursuant to Section 1536 of the Penal Code. It is signed by Alameda County Superior Court Magistrate J.W. Horner.

Investigators are demanding access to the computer used by Carolyn Wilson while she was employed at the OHA. It may contain email records, correspondence or chat logs in active files that may reveal what was going on at the OHA during the period Wilson scammed tenants out of at least $10,750 before moving them into Lockwood Gardens.

During the week of May 15, in two separate rulings, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Y. Smith blocked a number of the evictions from Lockwood Gardens. Dissatisfied with the court’s rulings, on June 5, 2006, the OHA amended their complaint against the families at Lockwood Gardens in another effort to evict them.

Corruption in Oakland Housing Authority

The corruption in the OHA was first exposed when Labrinina McDougle came into the OHA’s Eligibility Office on Dec. 6, 2005, to inquire about the status of her application for public housing. When her client number was put into the system, information for Jamilah Page and Samantha Martin showed up instead on the computer screen, and it became apparent that someone had altered the files under McDougle’s client number.

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