Appellate Court Upholds Judge’s Decision On Former Subway Spokesman’s Sentence
Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle will have to serve the 15-year, eight-month sentence prison sentence U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt gave him last year. That’s the word coming from a federal appeals court that heard a motion to reduce the sentence.
Fogle had been convicted of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, and distribution and receipt of child pornography and. The three appellate court judges from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the sentence and said reducing Fogle’s sentence wouldn’t happen because of the plethora of evidence showing Fogle repeatedly and knowingly traveled the country to have sex with minor children.
According to Fogle’s attorney Ron Elberger, a plea deal had been reached, with prosecutors agreeing they would not ask for more than 12 ½ years. However, he argued, Pratt abused her authority when she decided to go against that agreement and add an additional three years to it. Elberger said imagining a crime doesn’t make it a crime. He said Pratt used Fogle’s fantasies and the acquisition of the child pornography in the case. Some of the children were around six years old.
One of the judges said the agreement was “unpersuasive”.
According to court documents, Fogle traveled to New York City and paid two under 18 girls for sex – one of those girls was 16 when the incident took place. There was 14 documented victims who received $100,000 each for a total of $1.4 million the former Subway spokesman agreed to pay.
During the November sentencing, Fogle said he was deeply sorry for his crimes. His attorneys said Fogle suffers from alcohol/drug dependence and his hypersexual.
The 38-year-old spokesman plead guilty last November to one count of each month, after FBI agents had raided his home in Indianapolis that brought to an end his career with the Subway endorsement. The endorsement took place after he lost in excess of 200 pounds in college, mainly due to his eating Subway sandwiches.
Fogle’s sentence is being carried out at Denver’s low-security Federal Correctional Institution Englewood.
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