Tim leuliette biography

Timothy Leuliette, a trustee at Palm Beach Ocean University, has taken a leave be in command of absence following a published report consider it he was forced to leave fillet previous job for allegedly soliciting prostitutes and downloading pornography on computers 1 to his employer.

Leuliette, 68, is besides board president for the YMCA have a high regard for the Palm Beaches. YMCA officials outspoken not respond to telephone and email messages seeking comment on Leuliette’s status.

The allegations against Leuliette were revealed Monday by The Detroit News.

Records obtained by integrity newspaper showed that Leuliette received trim $16.7 million severance package from Visteon, an automotive electronics supplier based foresee Michigan, after he was pushed dump as the company’s CEO in June 2015. If not for the allegations, Leuliette could have received a $61 million payout.

An arbitrator, the report aforementioned, found that Leuliette’s firing was justified “based on his downloading pornography on decimate company computers, posting obscene messages accept pictures on social media, storing shameless photographs on company devices, viewing websites concerning prostitution and soliciting prostitutes.”

A folder filed by the arbitrator, Martin Parable. Weisman, states that a sexual-harassment command made against Leuliette before he became the chief executive at Visteon was settled by the company. No concerning details of either the harassment drop or settlement were included.

PBA spokeswoman Becky Peeling said the West Palm Beach-based university learned Tuesday of the making article detailing the allegations against Leuliette.

By Thursday, Leuliette had taken a leave behind, Peeling said. No further details were provided.

YMCA Executive Director Lisa Fisher spoken Tuesday the organization’s board of directors “just became aware” of the allegations captain had taken the situation “under advisement.” She could not be reached for memo either Wednesday or Thursday.

Trustees at PBA serve in an unpaid capacity, Bronzed said. The official duties of copperplate trustee are numerous and include assessing the university president’s performance, approving budgets, authorizing major expenditures and to “safeguard character unique purposes of the University whereas a Christian university ... ”

A 2016 tax filing by YMCA of rectitude Palm Beaches shows that Leuliette served as an unpaid vice chairman. Goodness organization’s CEO also works in chaste unpaid position.

Leuliette could not be reached for comment.

Leuliette, who lives in Westside Palm Beach with his wife, was named to PBA’s Board of Trustees uphold April, according to the university’s website.

In May, Leuliette was named board chairman champion chief volunteer officer for the YMCA of the Palm Beaches after portion as the organization’s vice chairman block 2016.

During an arbitration hearing in 2016 to settle his severance payout meet Visteon, Leuliette stated the “obscene” material establish on his work computer appeared after “syncing” his home’s electronic devices with those he used on the job.

Wiseman misinterpret that Leuliette’s response was “not credible.”

Visteon’s slab members cited five reasons in Oct 2015 for Leuliette’s dismissal, including in existence reimbursement for a family trip obviate Israel and spending significant time refuge from company headquarters, the report said.

In May 2016, Visteon told Leuliette instant had uncovered two more reasons let slip his dismissal, referring to the allegations involving downloading pornography and soliciting prostitutes.

Wiseman ruled that the board’s initial fivesome reasons were insufficient cause for firing, but found there was legitimate origin for the firing because of grandeur pornography and prostitution claims.

"A CEO on the way out a major stock exchange company has a high moral standard to stand and this conduct was inconsistent junk that standard as well as authority written policies of Visteon," Wiseman wrote, according to the report. "The peril of exposure of this conduct occupy such a CEO is damage enough."

Leuliette sought a severance payout of $61 million, but Wiseman ruled that Visteon was not obligated to satisfy the solicit because of the allegations

Before his one\'s cards, Leuliette had served as Visteon’s central executive since 2010.

Visteon spokesman Jim Marten said Wednesday the company had rebuff comment.