According to multiple media reports, the City of Greensboro agreed to pay $220,000 to settle a lawsuit against former Greensboro City Manager Taiwo Jaiyeoba, in which a female employee who reported to him claimed there was “unwanted touching” by the former manager.
The settlement included $165,000 for the claim, plus additional money for the woman’s wages and unused vacation time, as well as money to cover her legal bills in the case.
Though the settlement occurred about a month after Jaiyeoba stepped down in March of 2024, the records of the lawsuit and its outcome only became public this week.
The former manager departed his city manager job with Greensboro government abruptly earlier this year under very controversial circumstances.
He was later hired as the national transit planning director for Lochner, a company that provides a wide range of transportation and transportation infrastructure services.
After he left Greensboro government, he worked as the interim manager for Zebulon, North Carolina, for a short time, before taking the job with Lochner.
When Jaiyeoba resigned in March, City of Greensboro officials never said why he stepped down.
When the Rhino Times asked why at that time, Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, “It was a personal decision,” and, when she was asked if it was related to an alleged domestic violence incident at Jaiyeoba’s home on December 28, 2023, Vaughan said, “I don’t believe the city manager did anything wrong on December 28.”
On Thursday, Dec. 28 and Friday, Dec. 29 of 2023, several 911 calls came from Jaiyeoba’s home, with one being deemed a “physical domestic disturbance” call.
Another 911 call was a request for an escort from the house on December 29.
An incident report noted that Jaiyeoba and two family members had “apparent minor injuries.”
That series of events was followed by an effort by many Greensboro residents to convince the Greensboro City Council to release the police body-cam videos pertaining to the situation. Many people assumed that incident was the reason the former city manager stepped down, however, this new revelation of the “unwanted touching” settlement may be a more likely candidate for the cause.
According to a news report this week from WUNC and WFDD, “The settlement bars the employee and the city from taking legal action or making disparaging remarks against each other – or against former city employees.”
The report goes on to state, “The employee resigned from her role just before the settlement was signed. Due to the sensitive nature of the claims described in the document, WFDD is not identifying her. She declined to comment on the matter.”
The report adds that it isn’t clear if the allegations were connected to Jaiyeoba’s departure from the city’s government in March.
A brief written statement from the City of Greensboro notes that, under North Carolina General Statutes, the city is legally prohibited from disclosing any details of the case.
The female employee no longer works for the City of Greensboro.
And yet, several of our FEMALE council members, voted to give him severance. Shame on all of you
In the Parasitic Sector, failure, incompetence, and malfeasance are invariably rewarded with more money.
Just listen to the Secret Service head bureaucrat trying to justify their failures in protecting Trump by claiming they need more “resources”…
. . . better resources than THEM ?
Yeah, you’d think they have enough resources, wouldn’t you? But government and every part of The Parasitic Sector has an insatiable greed.
For example, the Department of Homeland Security didn’t exist until 2002. We did just fine without it, but now it has an annual budget of $62,2 BILLION and a quarter of a million employees. And we have the weakest borders we’ve ever had.
So much for securing the homeland…
The entire Parasitic Sector is grossly incompetent and unfit for purpose, but costs us Billions and Billions. Every year.
Why does the tax payer have to foot the bill for this …why can’t the city of Greensboro file a law suit to recover these funds ….oh I forgot that’s how government works ..what a travesty…when are the tax payers going to stand up to this type of government corruption…
And could it be because he was. . . . .get ready. . . .Black? Had he been White, he would have been fired a long time ago
Sounds like some improper intergovernmental relations.
Damn! Toby’s gone and still costing us money! Nancy & her Socialist mob will never accept responsibility for this. It was destined to fail from day 1. All the signs were there. Look at the blue cities the fella came from and the disastrous programs he took credit for on his CV. The people of that mindset in these high level positions truly believe they’re untouchable.
Mayor playing hide and seek with information again.
Well how about that. I’m sure ms.johnson and ms. hightower must sleep really well at night knowing how they not only stood behind this nigerian fool but then voted to give him 3 months of undeserving taxpayer dollars and also pay another 1/4 million to settle his screw up ( no pun intended ) while on the job. What a bunch of morons we have running this city.
We take care of our own.
They have to screw their socks on, because they are crooked.
What a total waste of taxpayers money caused by this one individual and a City Council that spends our money carelessly!
Why are we the tax payers pay for this Man’s unwanted touching someone…….. Seriously
The only reason I can think of is: perhaps he has a history of this and the city council should have known. Of course, the way all this played out in secrecy, a city looking to hire can’t really know what is in the candidate’s past.
I may be mistaken, by I remember the city was warned of his past misdeeds while grifting the City of Charlotte just before fleecing COG.
When are we going to look into Ship Austin’s dealings …here a city councilman making never salary yet lives in a million dollar home has many assets we probably don’t know and yet he covers them behind this AUSTIN REALITY GROUP …and when u google his website it’s under construction…and has been for months …what kind of properties does that company handle …it’s time to uncover the true behind all these corrupt government officials ….
This is about par with this city council. The snafus just keep coming. All of our high tax dollars flushed down the toilet for a DEI hiring process. Our city council continues to prove how big of a joke they are and the residents who continue to vote them in are not much better. Hope some considerations are given in the next election or we shall continue to have self serving council members and their expensive pet projects.
I am not optimistic. There is a block of voters in GSO that keeps putting the same folks in office: Nancy Vaughn, Sharron Hightower, Goldie Wells. Even Yvonne Johnson has gone wacky. We will continue to get more of the same.
Please note that this is all because of VOTER APATHY. If more Guilford County residents turned out to vote things would be much different.
We have only ourselves to blame. Take a neighbor to vote this year!
Jaiyeoba The Groper
I couldn’t help but think about the amount of money paid to settle and the severance paid to Mgr Jaye, plus salary wasted on his lacky, etc, etc, etc, we could have had some loose leaf collection. But no. I will have to stuff about 200 bags to handle my leaves. Thanks City Council.
I think ending loose leaf collection will be his legacy.
You tax dollars at work. Aren’t you proud?
It is pretty well known inside city hall that her hands were not totally clean. And she only got the money if she agreed to leave.
Explains the need for all the tax increases…………….
Don’t forget he raised the city budget $200 million in two years. Now council and city management doesn’t know how to pay for it. Don’t be surprised if they bring back a familiar name at city manager.
Yep, the city is about to put on a retread. Another disaster hire in the making
Surely you mean that Jaiyeoba was the disaster..?
You seem to be defending him repeatedly here.
Why?
Remember Greensboro, as the old commercial went…You asked for it, You got it
Mr. Marshall
Mr. Marshall,
Is it me or is Greensboro quickly becoming Baltimore?
If I recall, Donald Trump was prosecuted in NYC for, inter alia, “hush money” payments. Here, it seems we are much more civilized, and what appears to be “hush money” is not paid by the perpetrator, but by the local taxpayers.
Shame on the whole council, especially the ones who voted for his severance package. And you Zack you had the opportunity to expose the truth about what was going on, why did you suddenly clam up. Telling the truth would not have violated anything. You’ve lost a great deal of respect from those that supported you. The whole council is wearing black faces today.
Don’t you remember Zack in tears at the end of a council meeting because he had offended Sharon H.? As always he puffs up in public but makes the deals in the back room. Would not want to lose the DGI funding that pays his salary.
More CMA that this city is famous for and the city council is also to blame. Welcome to Blacksboro.
Looks to me like the delay in releasing the information and the severance pay given to the former manager was designed to give him space to land on his feet. Govco protecting its own. All the fine folks in Greensboro should remember this next election while the leaves pile up on your curb and in the streets.
Expect a very long line to immediately form at COG cashiers office to collect settlement from this one grifter alone.
Separate line will be needed for the other city officials doing the very same damn thing!!
This is really just meant to be a humorous story. Right? I mean the Rhino is just providing its readers with some comedy. Right? This foolishness did not really happen. Good story though. I am LMAO!
Greensboro CC members have no courage. They are all lemmings following whatever the Blacks want or what the CC perceives they want. No guts, no glory.
This is exactly the kind of thing people can expect when you hire people for reasons other than their work history and capabilities. This stuff is happening all over the Country. Wake up America and go to Council meetings, Commissioner’s meetings and get involved in the Election process. Demand better of your representatives and hold them responsible for doing their jobs.
What a laughing woke and the city council members are the tail end of the joke, they all need be voted out of office, try to hide things from tax payers, if it had been anybody else they would had released the video.
Not sure why everyone is mad at City Council. Thai is the one that did this. He is a proven danger to many others, the employee, his family and others at prior employers. He is the one with the trail. True if there had been released true evidence of prior misdeeds, Council should be reprimanded, BUT THAI DID THIS. HE IS RESPONSIBLE. He did it while at work, which, as he knows, means it is the employer that gets sued……especially if it was mentioned and ignored which it apparently was. THAI is the criminal here and perhaps the City personnel department if they ignored it. THAI knows what he’s doing and how to do it so he gets of “hands free” so to speak. This is the fault of THAI and anyone in the City’s Personnel Department that knew about it. He has left memories that will never leave Greensboro. He seems to leave a trail behind him wherever he goes.
Please re-read your comments. City Council HIRED the dude. They are responsible for Thai being in the position of city manager. He was a DEI hire.
Severance pay?????why……The city needs to go back to electing council members at large so they can be held accountable. Watch how Zack votes and you will know what is going on. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO GREENSBORO….ONCE A GREAT CITY.
NEXT THING IS THE LOOSE LEAF PROBLEM. WORSE DECISION THE COUNCIL HAS EVER MADE. THAT FIGHT IS NOT OVER.
HELP IS ON ITS WAY…..
Holliday, Alston and Vaughn admins! Two condescending white liberals being played by a professional racebaiter! We all lose. Btw, why and what happened to Mo’ Green going and coming back?
Mo Green is busy running a very nasty campaign for State School Superintendent. He’s leveraged his race and political ambitions to try and steer your students for the next decade.
Oldest hustle in the book. Step one: get a government job.: 2 work and reap as long as possible.:3 fail at job due to being under qualified. :4 job becomes in Jeopardy.:5 begin improper relationship.:6 victim makes false allegation.:7 sue the city.:8 city settles for large sum of money :9 split settlement with accuser.:10 walk away with thousands or millions of $$$$$$
What ever happened to that old saying, “Crime does not pay?” 21st Century America – unfreakinbelievable.
Compare this payout with a similar amount due to former police chief David Wray almost twenty years ago. Wray, a career officer with an unblemished record, was forced from office by fake race charges brought by several black officers. The city council and manager failed to support the chief, instead surrendering to sensational news accounts that favored the black officers over Wray, without evidence of wrongdoing on his part. Wray had a clean record, was not fired and never charged with anything. Still, In light of this the courageous council at that time denied him his due. In the current situation the former manager was paid $220,000, without hesitation, by a council containing several life members who were on the council years ago during the Wray affair. Talk about political courage.
Each time I watch a detective show on British TV or otherwise, I chuckle to myself when a photo array is used to identify a suspect when the race of the suspect is known. If a suspect has been identified as being Black, why would photos of a White or Asian person be included in the photo group? Yet, David Wray was accused of racism for showing photos of Black men only when the suspect had been identified as being Black. The emotional pain that David Wray must have experienced was the result of a city manager ill-equipped to be city manager, Black police officers within the police department, the mayor, and city council members still occupying a seat on city council. Greensboro is no different today as twenty years ago. What a sad commentary.
Good lord let the David Wray thing go. Those of us who worked under his regime know how he “led” the department. Maybe if he hadn’t hired his retired incompetent friends to track Hinson with 1980s equipment they could have gotten something on him. Wray miscalculated every move he made-from changing the schedule to the most horrendous schedule he could create (that none of him or his boys had to work), to using losers to do his little side investigations, to taking on a group that was way smarter than he would ever be. Let it go man-we were glad to see him go. Remember he quit like a B-faxing his resignation from a Kinkos.
So very correct, DTF. Happens all the time in today’s managerial world. Race is injected into an issue and one has to either support the race Hustler or the idiot who created the problem in the first place. Two wrongs DON’T make anything right.
DTF, have you been relentlessly pursued by your underlings, or anyone with a goal to ruin you? Underlings who undermine authority, subordinates without their superior’s responsibilities and accountabilities so there is time for dirty work. The emotional strain experienced under these circumstances cannot be calculated. Decisions made by David Wray during this time may not have been the best or most effective decisions; I do not know. But what I conclude is that there was a conspiracy to dispose of David Wray instigated by certain members of the police department who put pressure on the city manager and members of city council by playing the race card. That’s why the story will not go away.
My sources tell me that David Wray was the only GPD chief of police in history to have his own officers put up a billboard calling for his removal AND send up a vote of no confidence to city council. They say that, corrupt or not, the man sabotaged any support he could have from his officers by treating them like dirt. So much so that they themselves asked him to leave in no uncertain terms. Rotating shifts, stupid hats, and shiny impractical pants were his priorities. Meanwhile, he went jogging through town shirtless every day with an entourage of bobble-headed lackeys in tow.
The trouble with Yes-men is that they agree with your stupid ideas. Then you’re shocked when the rest of the world thinks you’re a dummy.
don, please read my response to DTF. The fact that your “sources’ told you that a billboard advertisement was paid for by fellow officers calling for David Wray’s removal, buttresses my assessment that Wray’s underlings were too busy sabotaging their boss, David Wray, that little time was left to do their job for which the taxpayers of Greensboro were paying them to do. I would opine that these officers cared little for the welfare of Greensboro and its residents. They all should have been fired for insubordination. Even the President of the United States can be sabotaged. Look at what Pelosi, Obama and Hakeem Jeffries did to Joe Biden. Biden’s expulsion was an inside job, same as David Wray’s. One big difference is that Biden is leaving with a boatload of money. David Wray was kicked to the curb.
Another point of view might be that Mr. Wray was making the job of his underlings unnecessarily difficult and he subsequently lost their support. And this was not a few underlings. This was the entire union, which was made up of nearly the entire workforce. They had no political power, no collective bargaining, only the power of their voice and they used it.
No GPD chief has been asked to leave by their own officers en masse before or since. Criminal or not, incompetent or not, my man Wray seems to have intentionally lost the support of his people. No one can lead an agency if no on wants to follow them, and that is where Mr. Wray and his bobble heads failed.
Discontent among workers generally starts with a few disgruntled employees. There is usually one leader in the group. The boss may not in the beginning recognize what is going on, but then the group gets bigger in size and the grievances of the group becomes larger in number due to the chatter in the department. Then when the sharks smell chum it is usually too late to recover. Eventually the discontent takes over the operation and the boss is left with few allies to help the boss work through the mess and find a resolution. A savvy boss would have already been looking for another job. I believe that in the beginning the disgruntled group was made up of Black officers who perceived that Wray was racist. Wray might have been from the old school that believed deference is given to authority. He was wrong.
Don maybe you can get a job with cowboy Danny and wear his new badges and stupid hats. I think you’ll fit right in.
I am a victim of “unwanted touching”. When I got my property tax bill this summer. I want compensation from the taxpayer, too.