Court documents: Fogle admits to sex with minors
Published 1:15 pm Wednesday, August 19, 2015
- The Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children task force is the lead agency on the investigation at Fogle's home, 4578 Woods Edge Drive in the Austin Oaks subdivision.
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle has reached a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office as federal prosecutors released documents Wednesday accusing him of engaging in sex acts with minors and receiving child pornography.
Fogle appeared in court Wednesday morning.
U.S. Attorney for Indiana’s Southern District Josh Minkler said the crimes date back as far as the late 2000s.
Steven D. DeBrota, senior litigation council for the U.S. Attorney’s office, said if Fogle had reported the actions of former Jared Foundation executive director Russell Taylor, the other 13 incidents could have been avoided.
“He didn’t do the right thing. What he chose to do is profit from that exploitation and get the result for his own use,” DeBrota said. “That’s why the restitution in the sentence was essential to the plea agreement.”
Fogle is expected to plead guilty to charges of distributing and receiving child pornography and interstate commerce in order to engage in unlawful sexual acts with minors.
Federal court documents show that Fogle admitted to having sex with 14 minors, including at the Plaza Hotel and Ritz-Carlton in New York City.
Four of the 14 victims are now adults, and some of them didn’t know of Fogle’s fame.
The agreement calls for Fogle to pay $1.4 million in restitution, $100,000 to each of the victims, within two days of the filing of the plea agreement, which is Aug. 19.
The plea agreement also says Taylor provided Fogle with child pornography that was produced at Taylor’s home and obtained from the Internet. In some cases, Fogle met the minors at social events in Indiana and knew their names, according to court documents.
If the plea is accepted by the court, Fogle must pay a $250,000 fine, register as a sex offender, must receive treatment for sexual disorders, may not have any unsupervised meetings or visits with any minor, and a potential jail sentence of 5 years to 12-1/2 years in prison. No specific sentence has been agreed to. Fogle would also be on probation for at least five years, and potentially for life.
The Internet Crimes Against Children task force led a raid at Fogle’s home in the Austin Oaks subdivision that began around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 7, and involved the FBI and a U.S. Postal Service investigator. Authorities were photographed removing electronics from the home and taking them — and Fogle — to a mobile forensics van in the driveway.
Following the raid, a Subway spokesperson announced, “Subway and Jared Fogle have mutually agreed to suspend their relationship due to the current investigation.”
According to www.celebritynetworth.com, the 37-year-old Fogle is worth an estimated $15 million, largely from his Subway commercials and related speaking engagements.
Fogle graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis before attending Indiana University. In a 2013 “B Magazine” interview, Fogle said he and his wife, Katie, moved to Zionsville, a suburb of Indianapolis, in 2009. They were married in 2010 and have two young children. According to news reports, it’s his second marriage.