INDIANAPOLIS – The man Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett hired three years to fix the city’s troubled public housing agency is out.

Indianapolis Housing Agency Executive Director John Hall turned in his resignation Friday, two months before the end of his contract, at head of the $80 million a year city agency entrusted with meeting the low-income housing needs of approximately 24 thousand people in Marion County and partnering in alternative shelter options for homeless persons.

“I want to thank John for his leadership of IHA during an especially critical time period,” read a statement issued by the mayor which praised Hall for his performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Five days before he cleaned out his office, Hall was listed as, “the target victim of (a criminal) Enterprise; subjected to continuous harm, fear, threat and/or intimidation to obstruct him from lawfully performing his duties as a public official, most particularly protecting federal funds from further risk of waste, fraud and abuse,” according to a Whistleblower’s Complaint sent to the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and obtained by Fox 59 News.

“I have not read a two-thousand page complaint,” said Hall who did not author the report. “I see some of the things that are being alleged. I lived it.”

The complaint details an alleged web of insider dealing, conflicts of interest and fraud in the purchase, sale and development of typically distressed properties...

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