Banjo CEO Resigns Following Revelation of KKK Ties
‘I believe Banjo’s best path forward is under different leadership’
Banjo CEO Damien Patton has stepped down from his position at the company, according to a press release by the company on Saturday, May 9. Banjo CTO Justin R. Lindsey will replace Patton as CEO. Patton is no longer an employee at Banjo, nor is he on the company’s board, the company told the Deseret News.
In late April, OneZero reported that Patton, who founded Banjo in 2010, had former ties to the Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and had participated in a nonfatal shooting of a synagogue in his youth.
The revelation led to the suspension and cancellation of many of Banjo’s contracts. Banjo had at least two significant contracts in the state of Utah: a $20.7 million contract with the Department of Public Safety and a $750,000 contract with the Office of the Attorney General to provide real-time monitoring of CCTV footage and social media.
