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'Super mayor' Tiffany Henyard faces yet another lawsuit amid ongoing federal investigations
Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard was served with another lawsuit on Thursday after a former employee claimed he was wrongfully terminated.
Former Maintenance Manager Dwayne Thrash alleged that he refused to help Henyard and her assistant Keith Freeman fire another employee, FOX 32 reported. Soon after, Thrash said he was accused of workplace violations that occurred while he was on vacation and was fired.
“Ever since Henyard became Mayor of the Village of Dolton and Supervisor of Thornton Township, she and her closest allies within the Village of Dolton and Thornton Township, including Freeman, have terminated the employment of several individuals they feel pose a political threat to Henyard and her public image, and/or who run afoul of Henyard and/or Freeman by defying their wishes,” the lawsuit read.
Tiffany Henyard was accused of firing employees she considered threats to her attempts to influence Thornton Township. (Village of Dolton | Adobe Stock)
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Thrash alleged in his complaint that in 2023, Henyard and Freeman asked him to help fire Thornton Township Trustees of Schools’ attorney Sarie E. Winner and replace her with Del Galdo Law Group LLC, Freeman’s preferred law firm.
Thrash refused and didn’t attend the special meeting that would make the change, according to the suit. Because he did not help with her “schemes and conspiracies,” the alleged plan failed.
“In response thereto, Thrash told Henyard and Freeman something to the effect of ‘you want to fire everyone in the office and I’m not going to go along with that,’” the lawsuit read.
Tiffany Henyard is under federal investigation for her lavish spending. (Screenshot courtesy of video from Fox32)
After taking a scheduled vacation, Thrash was informed that he was being terminated effective immediately for misconduct and insubordination, according to his complaint. The notice of termination stated that he failed to “punch in and out appropriately” and was disciplined for “insubordination and unsatisfactory work performance,” despite it being vacation time when both infractions occurred.
The lawsuit alleged others were also fired for failing to follow Henyard or Freeman.
Thrash is requesting that three allegedly false write-ups be expunged from his record along with statutory and compensatory damages for his termination.
Henyard was served another lawsuit earlier this year. (iStock)
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Fox News Digital reached out to Henyard’s office for a comment.
Henyard, the self-proclaimed “super mayor” of a small town south of Chicago, has made national headlines over ongoing probes into her spending. In addition to two federal investigations against her, Henyard also faces another lawsuit from a former employee alleging she was forced to work from her car and was eventually fired.
“People have really been damaged by this administration,” former Thornton Township Human Resources manager Sandra Tracy told Fox News program “America’s Newsroom.” “My personal situation is that I was trying very hard to get paid, and I couldn’t get anybody to respond to me — not to call, text or email.”
Fox News. Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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Meteorological summer kicks off June 1 and lasts through August. So, is the heat here to stay in Minnesota?
With temperatures near 90 lately, summer is on everyone’s mind. The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center says it’s a toss-up when it comes to temperatures over the three-month season.
“We’re going into an El Niño, and probably a very strong one, or a super El Niño, as they say,” said Pete Boulay, a climatologist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “And looking at past history, might be a cooler-than-normal summer. But we’ll have to wait and see what happens. If you stay dry, it’s going to be hard to stay cool.”
And no doubt, Minnesota has been dry already with drought conditions persisting across northern and southwestern parts of the state.
“Most places in the state are about 1-3 inches short of normal for May, and right about this time of year, we should get about an inch of rain a week,” Boulay said. “Every time we don’t get that rain, every week that goes by, the drought will come back.”
The summer outlook says it is more likely that conditions remain drier than average through August. Though we’re past the majority of Minnesota’s wildfire season, Boulay said if conditions are right, that could create elevated fire threats, unless you’re lucky enough to see some rain.
“We’re in that kind of lazy pattern right now. There’s a high pressure off to our east, and we have kind of the return flow coming out of the south, so warm, and you know, you still might have one of those thunderstorms pop up very isolated, but maybe you’ll get lucky and get one, but most people won’t,” he said.
Boulay said he doesn’t see any change in sight in the short-term with more heat on the way to kick off June.
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – A Missouri man was arrested last week following a traffic stop in Topeka.
According to the Shawnee Co. Sheriff’s Office, on Wednesday, May 20, shortly before 9 p.m., a deputy conducted a traffic stop on an SUV in the 1900 block of SW Topeka Boulevard.
Officials said that during the investigation, it was discovered that the driver of the vehicle did not have a valid license, the vehicle was not properly registered and there was no liability insurance as required. In addition, illegal narcotics were allegedly found.
As a result, Robert L. Brooks, 55, of Carthage, Mo., was arrested and booked into the SNDOC on the following:
- Possession of an opiate, opium, narcotic or certain stimulant
- Use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia
- Driving while license suspended
- Vehicles; display plate not assigned
- Fail to stop at a stop sign
No additional information was provided.
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