Court to Greene: Pay fine, file reports

Commonwealth Court has ordered former Philadelphia Housing Authority Executive Director Carl R. Greene to pay a $1,653 fine to the state Ethics Commission and to file missing reports on his income and expenses.

In March, the ethics panel filed suit, seeking to enforce its fine and order that the reports from 2004 to 2009 be filed. In an order filed Wednesday, Judge J. Wesley Oler Jr. ruled that Greene submit the missing reports and pay the fine within 30 days.

Greene had failed to meet the commission's repeated requests that he file the reports. After the commission's deadline passed for the reports, Greene was fined $1,500. He missed another deadline for appealing the decision, and the commission sought enforcement through the suit. In the new ruling, the court added $153 in legal fees to the original $1,500 fine. — Mark Fazlollah