Subway suspends pitchman Jared Fogle as police search his Indiana home
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Former franchisee tipped off Subway ad exec about Jared Fogle, lawyer says
Published August 28, 2015FoxNews.com
A former Subway franchisee alerted an executive in charge of the company’s advertising in 2008 to her concerns about pitchman Jared Fogle, according to the woman’s lawyer.
Cindy Mills and Fogle exchanged phone numbers after they met at an event, said Robert Beasley, a lawyer in Florida who represents Mills. After Fogle began talking about paying for sex with minors, the lawyer said Mills alerted a regional Subway contact in Florida where the stores were based.
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Mills alerted Jeff Moody, who was in charge of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, which handles marketing, the lawyer said. At the time, Subway’s franchise advertising fund was controlled by franchisees, said Don Sniegowski, editor of Blue MauMau, a site for franchisees. Subway had little say in the fund, but gain control of it after a 2010 lawsuit, Beasley said.
The company has said it doesn’t have a record of the complaints about Fogle by the former franchisee, which were previously reported by Business Insider. The publication initially kept Mills’ identity anonymous at her request, but identified her on Thursday. It also identified Moody as the Subway executive she alerted.
Beasley said Mills became comfortable about coming forward after Fogle agreed on Aug. 19 to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex with girls as young as 16 and received child pornography.
Fogle told her about paying for sex with minors on a trip to Thailand, and paying for sex with a 16-year-old he found on Craigslist, Beasley said. She offered to show Moody the texts from Fogle, but Moody stopped her and said he didn’t want to hear anymore and that Moody had dealt with similar comments, and reassured Mills that Fogle had met a teacher who would get him on the right track, he said.
"To me, it was confirmation that they knew about it," Beasley said.
Beasley said Mills explored the idea of suing Subway, but there is a “good bit of legal separation between Jared and Subway.” Beasley said the company is structured a certain way that insulates it from Fogle.
Jeff Moody is currently CEO of Rita's Italian Ice, according to LinkedIn. The site says he was CEO of Subway's franchise advertising fund between 2007 and 2011.
The agreement with Fogle released by prosecutors last week said Fogle will pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 minor victims, who will each get $100,000. The document noted that the payments would not prevent any victims from pursuing civil litigation.
The government agreed to not seek a sentence of more than 12 ½ years in prison and Fogle agreed not to ask for less than five years.
The same day authorities announced the deal with Fogle, Subway said it had ended its relationship with its pitchman of 15 years. The company has also said it's investigating a second claim, made by a former journalist, that it was alerted to concerns about Fogle.
When prosecutors charged Fogle on Aug. 19, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota said that there were no charges or allegations at the time that anybody at Subway knew what Fogle was doing.
Fogle attorney Ron Elberger declined to comment Thursday. Tim Horty, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Indianapolis, said the office cannot confirm the names of any of the sources the government used in its investigation of Fogle.
Published August 28, 2015FoxNews.com
A former Subway franchisee alerted an executive in charge of the company’s advertising in 2008 to her concerns about pitchman Jared Fogle, according to the woman’s lawyer.
Cindy Mills and Fogle exchanged phone numbers after they met at an event, said Robert Beasley, a lawyer in Florida who represents Mills. After Fogle began talking about paying for sex with minors, the lawyer said Mills alerted a regional Subway contact in Florida where the stores were based.
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Mills alerted Jeff Moody, who was in charge of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, which handles marketing, the lawyer said. At the time, Subway’s franchise advertising fund was controlled by franchisees, said Don Sniegowski, editor of Blue MauMau, a site for franchisees. Subway had little say in the fund, but gain control of it after a 2010 lawsuit, Beasley said.
The company has said it doesn’t have a record of the complaints about Fogle by the former franchisee, which were previously reported by Business Insider. The publication initially kept Mills’ identity anonymous at her request, but identified her on Thursday. It also identified Moody as the Subway executive she alerted.
Beasley said Mills became comfortable about coming forward after Fogle agreed on Aug. 19 to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex with girls as young as 16 and received child pornography.
Fogle told her about paying for sex with minors on a trip to Thailand, and paying for sex with a 16-year-old he found on Craigslist, Beasley said. She offered to show Moody the texts from Fogle, but Moody stopped her and said he didn’t want to hear anymore and that Moody had dealt with similar comments, and reassured Mills that Fogle had met a teacher who would get him on the right track, he said.
"To me, it was confirmation that they knew about it," Beasley said.
Beasley said Mills explored the idea of suing Subway, but there is a “good bit of legal separation between Jared and Subway.” Beasley said the company is structured a certain way that insulates it from Fogle.
Jeff Moody is currently CEO of Rita's Italian Ice, according to LinkedIn. The site says he was CEO of Subway's franchise advertising fund between 2007 and 2011.
The agreement with Fogle released by prosecutors last week said Fogle will pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 minor victims, who will each get $100,000. The document noted that the payments would not prevent any victims from pursuing civil litigation.
The government agreed to not seek a sentence of more than 12 ½ years in prison and Fogle agreed not to ask for less than five years.
The same day authorities announced the deal with Fogle, Subway said it had ended its relationship with its pitchman of 15 years. The company has also said it's investigating a second claim, made by a former journalist, that it was alerted to concerns about Fogle.
When prosecutors charged Fogle on Aug. 19, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota said that there were no charges or allegations at the time that anybody at Subway knew what Fogle was doing.
Fogle attorney Ron Elberger declined to comment Thursday. Tim Horty, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Indianapolis, said the office cannot confirm the names of any of the sources the government used in its investigation of Fogle.
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Jared Fogle's shocking request to mom of young kids
By Mark Mooney @CNNMoney
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The main revelation: The woman who spent four years tape recording phone calls she says were with Fogle as he discussed his sexual exploits with children said at one point Fogle asked if he could see her children naked.
Excerpts from the secretly recorded calls with Fogle, the disgraced former pitchman for Subway, were played in public for the first time on Thursday and again on Friday.
In the raunchy conversations, which were frequently bleeped, Fogle is heard describing how much he enjoyed luring young boys and girls into sex, and how to convince them to cooperate.
The apparent recordings were made by Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former journalist who became suspicious of Fogle after he was a guest on her radio show. It was during that meeting when Herman-Walrond heard Fogle say that he was attracted to middle-school girls.
In the years that followed, Herman-Walrond says she taped her conversations with Fogle for the FBI.
Tim Horty of the U.S. Attorney's office said the Herman-Walrond tapes "were not part of our initial investigation.
"We are aware of what they [the tapes] had to say and we took the recordings into account, but that's as much as I can say about it," Horty said.
Fogle, 38, was fired by Subway and pleaded guilty in August to child pornography charges and crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors. He has paid out $1 million to 10 of his victims, and will be sentenced by a judge in November.
In the recordings aired Friday, Fogle is heard telling Herman-Walrond: "I think we could be a really, really good team."
He then asked, "Would you let me see your kids naked? ... I would love to see them naked." Fogle asked her which of her children he should see.
Herman-Walrond's son and daughter were 10 and 11 at the time.
"At that moment I became very frightened that I had involved my own children in this indirectly. ... Now he wants my children," she told Dr. Phil McGraw.
Despite her anger, Herman-Walrond calmly changed the subject to a children's party that Fogle wanted her to organize for him. But Fogle later came back to the subject of her children.
"What if I put a camera in your kids' room, would you be okay with that?" he is heard asking. He then asks her to suggest which child "you think would be better."
Herman-Walrond also said she received a call from Fogle one day. "He was telling me about a 6-year-old little girl and he was flying to go see her."
She said she alerted the FBI, but without a name of the child or a town she was in, the FBI couldn't do anything.
"That's haunted me for years. ... I have reoccurring nightmares" of the incident, she said.
Ronald Elberger, a lawyer for Fogle, declined to discuss the tapes that were played on "Dr. Phil."
"I've heard they were on, but haven't watched them," Elberger said. "I have no comment on any questions."
Few spokespeople were as closely linked to a brand in recent years as Fogle was to Subway.
The story of how Fogle lost 245 pounds by eating Subway twice a day was a key part of its marketing campaigns for 16 years. And that story helped Subway quietly become a fast food giant, with more locations than any other retailer.
By Mark Mooney @CNNMoney
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The main revelation: The woman who spent four years tape recording phone calls she says were with Fogle as he discussed his sexual exploits with children said at one point Fogle asked if he could see her children naked.
Excerpts from the secretly recorded calls with Fogle, the disgraced former pitchman for Subway, were played in public for the first time on Thursday and again on Friday.
In the raunchy conversations, which were frequently bleeped, Fogle is heard describing how much he enjoyed luring young boys and girls into sex, and how to convince them to cooperate.
The apparent recordings were made by Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former journalist who became suspicious of Fogle after he was a guest on her radio show. It was during that meeting when Herman-Walrond heard Fogle say that he was attracted to middle-school girls.
In the years that followed, Herman-Walrond says she taped her conversations with Fogle for the FBI.
Tim Horty of the U.S. Attorney's office said the Herman-Walrond tapes "were not part of our initial investigation.
"We are aware of what they [the tapes] had to say and we took the recordings into account, but that's as much as I can say about it," Horty said.
Fogle, 38, was fired by Subway and pleaded guilty in August to child pornography charges and crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors. He has paid out $1 million to 10 of his victims, and will be sentenced by a judge in November.
In the recordings aired Friday, Fogle is heard telling Herman-Walrond: "I think we could be a really, really good team."
He then asked, "Would you let me see your kids naked? ... I would love to see them naked." Fogle asked her which of her children he should see.
Herman-Walrond's son and daughter were 10 and 11 at the time.
"At that moment I became very frightened that I had involved my own children in this indirectly. ... Now he wants my children," she told Dr. Phil McGraw.
Despite her anger, Herman-Walrond calmly changed the subject to a children's party that Fogle wanted her to organize for him. But Fogle later came back to the subject of her children.
"What if I put a camera in your kids' room, would you be okay with that?" he is heard asking. He then asks her to suggest which child "you think would be better."
Herman-Walrond also said she received a call from Fogle one day. "He was telling me about a 6-year-old little girl and he was flying to go see her."
She said she alerted the FBI, but without a name of the child or a town she was in, the FBI couldn't do anything.
"That's haunted me for years. ... I have reoccurring nightmares" of the incident, she said.
Ronald Elberger, a lawyer for Fogle, declined to discuss the tapes that were played on "Dr. Phil."
"I've heard they were on, but haven't watched them," Elberger said. "I have no comment on any questions."
Few spokespeople were as closely linked to a brand in recent years as Fogle was to Subway.
The story of how Fogle lost 245 pounds by eating Subway twice a day was a key part of its marketing campaigns for 16 years. And that story helped Subway quietly become a fast food giant, with more locations than any other retailer.
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Jared Fogle's shocking request to mom of young kids
By Mark Mooney @CNNMoney
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The main revelation: The woman who spent four years tape recording phone calls she says were with Fogle as he discussed his sexual exploits with children said at one point Fogle asked if he could see her children naked.
Excerpts from the secretly recorded calls with Fogle, the disgraced former pitchman for Subway, were played in public for the first time on Thursday and again on Friday.
In the raunchy conversations, which were frequently bleeped, Fogle is heard describing how much he enjoyed luring young boys and girls into sex, and how to convince them to cooperate.
The apparent recordings were made by Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former journalist who became suspicious of Fogle after he was a guest on her radio show. It was during that meeting when Herman-Walrond heard Fogle say that he was attracted to middle-school girls.
In the years that followed, Herman-Walrond says she taped her conversations with Fogle for the FBI.
Tim Horty of the U.S. Attorney's office said the Herman-Walrond tapes "were not part of our initial investigation.
"We are aware of what they [the tapes] had to say and we took the recordings into account, but that's as much as I can say about it," Horty said.
Fogle, 38, was fired by Subway and pleaded guilty in August to child pornography charges and crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors. He has paid out $1 million to 10 of his victims, and will be sentenced by a judge in November.
In the recordings aired Friday, Fogle is heard telling Herman-Walrond: "I think we could be a really, really good team."
He then asked, "Would you let me see your kids naked? ... I would love to see them naked." Fogle asked her which of her children he should see.
Herman-Walrond's son and daughter were 10 and 11 at the time.
"At that moment I became very frightened that I had involved my own children in this indirectly. ... Now he wants my children," she told Dr. Phil McGraw.
Despite her anger, Herman-Walrond calmly changed the subject to a children's party that Fogle wanted her to organize for him. But Fogle later came back to the subject of her children.
"What if I put a camera in your kids' room, would you be okay with that?" he is heard asking. He then asks her to suggest which child "you think would be better."
Herman-Walrond also said she received a call from Fogle one day. "He was telling me about a 6-year-old little girl and he was flying to go see her."
She said she alerted the FBI, but without a name of the child or a town she was in, the FBI couldn't do anything.
"That's haunted me for years. ... I have reoccurring nightmares" of the incident, she said.
Ronald Elberger, a lawyer for Fogle, declined to discuss the tapes that were played on "Dr. Phil."
"I've heard they were on, but haven't watched them," Elberger said. "I have no comment on any questions."
Few spokespeople were as closely linked to a brand in recent years as Fogle was to Subway.
The story of how Fogle lost 245 pounds by eating Subway twice a day was a key part of its marketing campaigns for 16 years. And that story helped Subway quietly become a fast food giant, with more locations than any other retailer.
By Mark Mooney @CNNMoney
.
The main revelation: The woman who spent four years tape recording phone calls she says were with Fogle as he discussed his sexual exploits with children said at one point Fogle asked if he could see her children naked.
Excerpts from the secretly recorded calls with Fogle, the disgraced former pitchman for Subway, were played in public for the first time on Thursday and again on Friday.
In the raunchy conversations, which were frequently bleeped, Fogle is heard describing how much he enjoyed luring young boys and girls into sex, and how to convince them to cooperate.
The apparent recordings were made by Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former journalist who became suspicious of Fogle after he was a guest on her radio show. It was during that meeting when Herman-Walrond heard Fogle say that he was attracted to middle-school girls.
In the years that followed, Herman-Walrond says she taped her conversations with Fogle for the FBI.
Tim Horty of the U.S. Attorney's office said the Herman-Walrond tapes "were not part of our initial investigation.
"We are aware of what they [the tapes] had to say and we took the recordings into account, but that's as much as I can say about it," Horty said.
Fogle, 38, was fired by Subway and pleaded guilty in August to child pornography charges and crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors. He has paid out $1 million to 10 of his victims, and will be sentenced by a judge in November.
In the recordings aired Friday, Fogle is heard telling Herman-Walrond: "I think we could be a really, really good team."
He then asked, "Would you let me see your kids naked? ... I would love to see them naked." Fogle asked her which of her children he should see.
Herman-Walrond's son and daughter were 10 and 11 at the time.
"At that moment I became very frightened that I had involved my own children in this indirectly. ... Now he wants my children," she told Dr. Phil McGraw.
Despite her anger, Herman-Walrond calmly changed the subject to a children's party that Fogle wanted her to organize for him. But Fogle later came back to the subject of her children.
"What if I put a camera in your kids' room, would you be okay with that?" he is heard asking. He then asks her to suggest which child "you think would be better."
Herman-Walrond also said she received a call from Fogle one day. "He was telling me about a 6-year-old little girl and he was flying to go see her."
She said she alerted the FBI, but without a name of the child or a town she was in, the FBI couldn't do anything.
"That's haunted me for years. ... I have reoccurring nightmares" of the incident, she said.
Ronald Elberger, a lawyer for Fogle, declined to discuss the tapes that were played on "Dr. Phil."
"I've heard they were on, but haven't watched them," Elberger said. "I have no comment on any questions."
Few spokespeople were as closely linked to a brand in recent years as Fogle was to Subway.
The story of how Fogle lost 245 pounds by eating Subway twice a day was a key part of its marketing campaigns for 16 years. And that story helped Subway quietly become a fast food giant, with more locations than any other retailer.