Judge rejects appeal from ex-Subway pitchman
An order from District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt called Jared Fogle’s claim that the court didn’t have jurisdiction to convict him “frivolous.”
An order from District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt called Jared Fogle’s claim that the court didn’t have jurisdiction to convict him “frivolous.”
Former Subway pitchman and Zionsville resident Jared Fogle is being sued by a girl who was one of the victims in the sex-crimes case that sent him to federal prison for more than 15 years. The suit seeks $150,000 each from Fogle and his former associate, Russell Taylor.
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle asked a federal appeals court on Friday to shorten the more than 15-year prison sentence he received for possessing child pornography and paying for sex with underage girls.
Pitchman’s sentence poisons the well for future plea deals.
The former Subway pitchman pleaded guilty to one count each of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child pornography. A judge also ordered him to pay a $175,000 fine and required him to serve a lifetime of supervised release after his sentence.
Jared Fogle has filed a notice of appeal in the child pornography and sex crime case that sent him to prison for more than 15 years.
The former director of an Indianapolis-based foundation started by ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 27 years in prison Thursday for producing child pornography that played a role in Fogle's criminal case.
Prosecutors are seeking a 35-year sentence for Russell Taylor, who ran the not-for-profit founded by the former Subway pitchman.
Subway Restaurants has given Coca-Cola Co. veteran Joseph Tripodi the job of burnishing the brand after the death of the company’s co-founder and a child-pornography scandal involving former spokesman Jared Fogle.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt on Thursday sentenced Jared Fogle to more federal prison time than prosecutors requested after testimony detailing the former Subway pitchman’s penchant for pornography, prostitutes and prepubescent girls.
A psychiatrist said Thursday during the sentencing hearing for Jared Fogle that the former Subway pitchman suffers from hypersexuality, pedophilia, and alcohol abuse and dependency.
Federal prosecutors have filed court documents saying they will seek the maximum agreed-upon sentence for former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle, who has agreed to plead guilty to child pornography and sex-crime charges. Fogle’s attorneys are seeking five years.
Rochelle Herman-Walrond, who said she spent five years secretly recording conversations with former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle, gave copies of the recordings to the Dr. Phil Show, which plans to air them Thursday and Friday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota said he's handled only one other case in which restitution was paid to victims before sentencing in nearly a quarter-century of prosecuting child porn cases.
A company spokeswoman would not divulge the nature of the complaint but said it included "nothing that implied anything about sexual behavior or criminal activity."
The former director of an Indianapolis-based foundation created by ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle will spend from 15 years to 35 years behind bars for child sex crimes, according to a plea agreement reached Tuesday with federal prosecutors.
An attorney says Russell Taylor, 44, will plead guilty to child pornography charges, possibly as early as Tuesday.
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is suing the former head of his Indianapolis-based charitable foundation for allegedly defaulting on a personal loan to buy an Indianapolis home.
A former executive who was in charge of Subway's advertising says he wasn't aware of pitchman Jared Fogle's criminal sexual conduct with minors in 2008, contradicting the statement of a former franchisee.
Former franchisee Cindy Mills said she expressed her concerns to a regional Subway contact in Florida in 2008 after Subway pitchman Jared Fogle began talking to her about paying for sex with minors.