Ian Roberts, also known as Steven Bay Mutumbo, faces federal firearms charges after ICE exposed his illegal status despite claiming MIT and Harvard credentials. Erica Sands reveals Roberts lied on I-9 forms, registered to vote fraudulently, and settled over $400,000 in sexual harassment lawsuits. While serving as a superintendent in Des Moines, he oversaw a race-based hiring plan targeting 40% minority representation by 2030, a strategy the Justice Department now investigates as illegal under state laws. This case highlights the risks of unverified leadership and the legal complexities surrounding affirmative action quotas in public education. [Automatically generated summary]
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Illegal Superintendent with White Name00:08:16
Or mind-blowing details surrounding the foreign African national who somehow became the superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa making nearly $300,000 a year.
52-year-old Ian Roberts was taken into custody by the Justice Department yesterday on firearms charges.
And this is after his arrest by ICE agents last week revealed he was living and working in the U.S. illegally.
Joining us right now to discuss is Defending Education's Director of Outreach, Erica Sands.
Good morning to you.
Good morning, Dan.
You know, so much information has now come out.
I feel like there's something new every single day on this case.
The New York Post now reporting that Roberts was a, quote, pathological liar who never attended MIT, who was the subject of a couple of sex discrimination lawsuits.
I know you guys have also done some digging as well.
What have you learned?
This is going to be a movie, I think, because there is so much drama unfolding.
The MIT thing, for example, was new.
I knew that he had a ton of claims about educational institutions, but what I wasn't aware of was that he also was making claims that he was going to be attending, I believe, MIT, and I think also maybe Harvard Graduate School of Education.
So just a pathological liar.
Why would you lie about those things?
Why would you draw attention to yourself?
Yeah.
I mean, how many black people graduate from Harvard and MIT?
I think that's quite a few in Harvard because DEI, but MIT, I mean, yeah, that's really prestigious.
That'd been a red flag for me.
I'll be like, what?
You graduated from MIT?
I was like, really?
When did you go?
But, I mean, major problems here.
He lied on his I-9 form about being a citizen.
He is registered to vote in Maryland, where he doesn't live.
And also he's here illegally.
And so.
And the same thing happened in Maryland, according to reports.
Under penalty of perjury, he also checked off that he was a U.S. citizen in order to register to vote in the state of Maryland as well, according to reports that we're seeing as well.
Yeah, Democrats act like these illegals are not registering to vote.
It's so easy to do.
I know in a lot of states, they're giving him driver's license to drive.
You don't think they're going to go and vote?
Come on.
Also, when he left his job as an administrator in, I think, Maryland, no, in Pennsylvania, I'm sorry.
See, it's confusing because he's been everywhere in Pennsylvania.
He left over $400,000 in legal settlements in his wake because of behaviors that led to lawsuits.
Dude, sexual harassment of the people.
That's not funny, but it's like there's so many red flags and nobody caught on to this guy.
Yeah.
That is nuts.
And so the district is on the hook for all this money.
And then he just takes off to this, to Des Moines, where again, like, I'm sorry, but like people were just like obsessively looking to check off identity boxes.
And so he fits all these boxes in this messed up sort of DEI slash affirmative action hiring.
So so Iowa is on the hook now too, because this is exposed, and we reported in February, by the way, that Iowa has a state law that requires school districts to have affirmative action hiring plans in place, which are against the law.
So not only.
Wow, that's how he would say at the beginning.
Oh man, we got a black guy from MIT.
His name is Dr. What's his name?
His name is Dr. Ian Roberts.
Man, this is great.
He even has a white guy's name.
How is your name Ian Roberts?
And you're from, that can't be Ayana name.
That can't be his real name.
His name is Steven Bay Mutumbo.
Was that likely a part of his hiring, but then that's what he oversaw as the superintendent.
was also very much into this idea of race-based hiring.
I believe they had a promise in their strategic plan written out in writing that they would be at 40% people of color for teachers and leaders by 2030.
But she just pointed out something I did not know.
So he went to Pennsylvania and was a superintendent of schools for a district there.
Yeah, 30%.
They said, no, she said 40%.
30%, 40, but either way, it's like, go back.
She said 40%.
What?
Black?
What'd she say?
They would be at 40% people of color for teachers and leaders by 2030.
How's that possible when 12% of the population is black?
And the percentage of them people that's qualified for that position is probably under 1%.
Right.
How do you get to 40%?
But I'm thinking this dude to pull his scam.
Initially, when you meet him, he's probably a very high IQ individual to pull this off.
You can't be some dumb African.
He's got that Obama swag, huh?
He's got to.
Nobody noticed he was a con man.
He's got to be a high IQ individual.
He's got to be.
He's got to be at least above average.
But you just pointed out something I did not know.
So he went to Pennsylvania and was a superintendent of schools for a district there, and then he went to Iowa.
But even if you didn't check to see what his work status was or what you've called his previous, where he worked before, and would that have come out, which you just mentioned about these lawsuits that he had faced there?
That's a good question.
So one huge problem in K-12 are these personnel records are sealed.
It's also the way that we see teachers who have been let go for sexual misconduct with students end up jumping to other districts because of teachers union protect them.
That's crazy.
I think the unions protected them to keep them protected.
Unless there's an arrest, which is a public record, it's sealed.
So my sense is that, again, I don't think that these school boards did their due diligence.
Reporters are fine.
Right now, just like regular people are digging and finding a ton of stuff.
But I also will say that on the personnel front, things are hidden because records are sealed.
And that is a safeguarding problem when you're working with students and families.
One thing you did mention, too, I want to point out as well is that the DOJ is investigating Des Moines public schools regarding race-based employment practices, correct?
Correct.
Yes.
And I think what they're going to find is that the district is, what the district is doing is illegal.
You cannot have racial quotas for hiring in a public school district.
But what they're also going to find is there's a state law on the books that is causing all these districts to implement these plans.
So I actually think the unconstitutionality starts at the state level and then is, you know, moves its way into the district.
So I don't see how they wouldn't have to scrap the state law, basically, because otherwise the district says we're just following state law.
All right, that's ridiculous.
Yeah.
So I found a video of this dude talking.
Yeah.
And this Negro is sharp.
He's smart.
I always sort of over-index on the celebrations because there's so much happening that it's amazing in our schools and certainly here in Des Moines Public Schools.
So I always get started with celebrations.
The second is around mission, vision, and key strategies.
I believe that organizations that succeed and scale their success are mission and vision focused.
And clearly, Des Moines Public Schools, given the work that you've done over the last several years, you are not only mission and vision focused, but there is an appetite to get better at that work.
And so I'm excited about that as well.
Five reasons why I just knew that this is the place where I need to be.
A board that had a children first attitude.
Every question, every conversation, either directly or on the side, is always focused on how we're going to make sure that our children are getting the best that they can, and this community sees and reaps the benefits of that.
Yeah, he's sharp.
Yeah, he's a sharp Negro.
Why We Were Fooled by Accent00:00:24
I would say high capacity because he put off a huge scam.
You saw those white people.
He fooled yeah, them white people fooled.
Well, cavarded was he, was.
You can hear his accent.
Yeah, I get his accent, but he was that's not his name.
Ian Roberts.
That can't be his name man, I bet his name is something crazy like a Keem Abu Dakubak.
Yeah, but you can tell he's very, he's very bright.