City to probe orgies on OT

The city Department of Investigation on Thursday opened a probe into allegations of staff sex parties at a Bronx NYCHA development after initially kicking the accusations back to the authority.

Investigation Department Commissioner Mark Peters made the decision after acknowledging the watchdog agency had received two tips earlier this summer about supervisors and staff engaged in booze-fueled orgies in the groundskeeper’s shop at the Throggs Neck Houses.

In both cases Ralph Iannuzzi, the Investigation Department’s inspector general for NYCHA, did not open an investigation but simply referred the matter over to the housing authority’s management.

Asked by The News if Iannuzzi would be handling the newly opened probe, department spokeswoman Diane Struzzi declined to comment.

In a terse statement released Thursday, Peters said, “DOI is opening an investigation into possible employee misconduct in the New York City Housing Authority’s Throggs Neck development after further reviewing the allegations, including two complaints it received this summer about improper behavior by staff at the Throggs Neck development. This investigation will build on the internal investigation conducted by NYCHA. As this is an ongoing investigation, DOI will not comment further at this time.”

Mayor de Blasio, at an unrelated press conference Thursday, said “DOI originally chose not to get involved. If they want to get involved now, that’s great.”

“The bottom line (is this) is not acceptable and anyone who participated will really be experiencing very, very serious consequences,” he added.

On Wednesday NYCHA suspended two employees implicated in the sex party allegations, including Brianne Pawson, daughter of a top NYCHA manager, Charles Pawson.