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Amid Child Sex Plea and Expected Prison Term, Subway Officially Cuts Ties With Longtime Spokesman Jared

Aug 19, 2015  •  Post A Comment

As news broke this week in the child pornography and underage sex case surrounding longtime Subway spokesman Jared Fogle, the company appears to have officially cut ties with Fogle.

Ad Age reports that Subway issued a brief statement on Twitter saying: “We no longer have a relationship with Jared and have no further comment.”

The statement came after a report Tuesday that Fogle would be pleading guilty today to possession of child pornography. USA Today was reporting today that Fogle would plead guilty to having sex with minors and to distributing and receiving child pornography. The paper noted that the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Indiana released the plea agreement.

Reuters later reported that Fogle pleaded guilty today in federal court “to charges of child pornography and traveling for illicit paid sex with minors.”

The Reuters report adds: “Federal Judge Mark Dinsmore must now review a plea deal Fogle’s attorneys reached with prosecutors and decide whether to accept it. Fogle was released and must wear an electronic monitoring device pending his next court appearance.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Fogle would reportedly be sentenced to between five and 12 years in prison and would pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 minor victims. He would also register as a sex offender and meet other conditions, Reuters reports.

Subway “suspended” its relationship with Fogle more than a month ago, as we reported previously, following an FBI raid on Fogle’s house. At that time Subway appeared to be keeping its options open regarding a possible reinstatement, but Ad Age notes that the company did remove references to Fogle from its website, “including what became an unfortunately named game on its kids’ site called Jared’s Pants Dance.”

Subway’s business may not be affected much by the Fogle situation. The Ad Age report, published before Fogle’s plea, quoted marketing consultant Denise Lee Yohn saying in an email to the publication: “I don’t think it will materially impact Subway — they already distanced themselves from him. Given the media’s short news cycles and people’s short attention spans, most people have already moved on.”

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One Comment

  1. He can always get a job on the UP Network, as they have demonstrated their lack of concern for the victims of molestation by continuing to air repeats of “7th Heaven.”

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