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Homeless in New York (symbol picture): Leased a luxury car through the aid organization?
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Shelters are actually meant to be a place where the homeless can find refuge and shelter from the rigors of life on the street.
But in New York ten women accuse the manager of one of the city's largest homeless aid organizations - employees and residents - of sexual assault and abuse in the New York Times.
A once homeless woman reported that she was pressed against a wall by the 60-year-old in 2016 and forced to have oral sex.
"He has a lot of power over many vulnerable girls," the 49-year-old is quoted as saying.
Another reported beating.
The organization paid a six-figure severance payment to two women, reports the newspaper.
In addition to sexual assault, the man is also exposed to monetary misconduct, according to the New York Times.
He is said to have employed family members and leased a luxury car through an aid organization.
Furthermore, the businesses of the non-profit homeless aid were mixed with profit-oriented ones.
Accused denied
Despite these allegations, the city administration continued to transfer money to the organization, the report said.
Since 2017, $ 274 million should have flowed.
The managing director, however, denied any wrongdoing and said, among other things, that he had always treated women with respect.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a comprehensive investigation after the allegations were made public in the New York Times.
The managing director was "not inviolable," he wrote on Twitter.
An independent investigator will be hired to review the nonprofit organizations that offer emergency shelters.
The Democratic local politician Stephen Levin expressed concern about the allegations.
In more than 15 years in non-profit housing construction, he could not remember having witnessed anything as terrible as this powerful manager, "who forces customers to have sex in order to help them in return."
He demanded clarification of what was known to the authorities and when.
According to the New York Times, 78,000 people are homeless in New York, and city spending on them totaled more than two billion dollars each year.
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