Explicit video exposes Kansas city manager, suspended

NEW DELHI: A Missouri state's Kansas city manager was suspended after a video, containing explicit content, of him was sent to the staff members.
The staffers received a video of Shawnee City Council’s $190,000-a-year manager Doug Gerber from an an anonymous account with the subject line: “MOST IMPORTANT.”
In the video, the manager was caught masturbating on a couch.It seems that the act was taped by Gerber himself, according to the Kansas City Star, which reviewed the footage after obtaining email records through a public information request, New York Post reported.
The identity of the sender is still unclear.
A city IT employee wrote the mail to staff members in the Kansas City suburb, stating, “This is just a disturbed individual trying to cause issues with the city,” a city IT employee wrote to staff members in the Kansas City suburb.
“We don’t hesitate to expose people involved in these dubious and un-Catholic practices,” the sender wrote.
Gerber had been investigated over rumors of previous “impropriety” before he was hired in March, council president Eric Jenkins confirmed to the Star, without elaborating.
The consultant leading the job search, however, assured them that “she thoroughly searched the background of Gerber and had found absolutely nothing that would give us cause not to select him,” Jenkins said.
Still, Shawnee Mayor Michelle Distler said she was “not incredibly surprised” at the scandal because of unspecified concerns over Gerber’s behavior at his previous job in Topeka.
While the city council had reacted to Gerber's video differently, the local media instead noted that the manager could be a victim of invasion of his privacy.
However, the city council held an emergency meeting late Wednesday and unanimously voted to put Gerber on administrative leave — in part for keeping the scandal secret for more than a month, as per the New York Post.
“This email was received at City Hall we’ve been told September 29h. I didn’t find out about this situation until Halloween Night,” said Jenkins, the council president.
An interim manager is being picked, and Gerber is expected to be fired, said Jenkins, who told KCTV he doesn’t “see how this man can move forward being the leader of our staff and our go-to-guy as the city manager.”