Lawyer: Former franchisee alerted Subway about Fogle

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CANDICE CHOI

NEW YORK (AP) — A former franchisee alerted a Subway advertising executive in 2008 about her concerns about pitchman Jared Fogle, according to her lawyer.

Cindy Mills exchanged phone numbers with Fogle 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 her business was based.

Later, he said Mills alerted Jeff Moody, who was in charge of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, which handles the company's marketing.

Subway did not respond to a request for comment late Thursday. The company has said it does not have a record of the complaints by the former franchisee about Fogle, 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.

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[JI7]

1. reminds me of Oprah telling TLC about Josh Duggar

in both cases money was more important than doing something about people who sexually abuse others.

[Overseas]

2. 2008 is quite a while ago. K&R.

[SunSeeker]

3. Wow. I just don't get it. What was so special about Jared Fogle that they kept him on?

Couldn't they find someone else who could lie about how they lost weight?

[murielm99]

4. He lied about that? n/t

[SunSeeker]

6. He lost weight because he stopped eating junk food and started walking...a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Fogle

BTW, I just found the answer to my question in that link as well:

By 2013, Fogle had filmed more than 300 commercials and continued to make appearances and speeches for the company. Subway attributed one third to one half of its growth in sales to Fogle, with revenue having tripled from 1998 to 2011.

[LisaL]

14. He stopped eating junk food and started eating Subway sandwiches.

Furthermore, I don't see anything in Wikipedia that he started walking a lot.
His weight loss came from switching from junk food to subway. So there was no lying going on of how he lost weight.

[SunSeeker]

17. It is not the Subway sandwiches that made him lose weight, any turkey sandwich would have sufficed.

What made him lose weight was quitting junk food and walking everywhere, including to the Subway in his neighborhood, every day. Google "How did Jared from Subway lose weight?"

That whole ad campaign implied that eating Subway sandwiches will make you lose weight. It won’t. Indeed, some Subway sandwiches, say the meatball sandwich on white bread, is a fat & calorie bomb with little nutrition and virtually no fiber. The veggie and turkey sandwiches on wheat are ok (so long as you hold the mayo and cheese like Jared did), but at $4.59 (here in L.A.) for a 6" sanwich, you are better off slapping it together at home.

Subway cynically played into Americans' desperate desire for a magic bullet to make them lose weight without diet and excercise.

[Miles Archer]

11. Weight loss is a funny thing...

...I've had my own issues with it in the past. In 2015, I'd say my weight is somewhere around "normal." But in my Sophomore year of high school, I went on Weight Watchers (the ORIGINAL program...no "points," no "pizza"...basically meat, dairy, bread, "limited" and "unlimited" vegetables, and fruit).

The one common thread that followed me through the years is that I've never been inspired by other people who lost weight...I didn't want to know them, I didn't want to be around them. It wasn't a "club" to me. I followed the Weight Watchers program at home but never went to meetings.

I'm an oddity when it comes to this, but the struggles of other people in ANY area of life have NEVER made me feel better or worse about my OWN struggles. I respect what other people go through. I just feel that it is irrelevant when it comes to what I'm going through.

So I never really cared for Fogle from the beginning. My reaction was "good for you." That was followed by "so effing what."

Subway's premise was that they were going to tell the Fogle "story" and people would somehow give a rat's ass and buy their sandwiches.

Didn't work on me.

[drm604]

5. Penn State.

This is starting to sound like the Penn State scandal. People told superiors at their place of employment rather than contacting authorities, and those superiors buried it.

[MisterP]

16. I think that's a big demotivator right there: not only is it now "someone else's problem"

but now they're afraid of "interfering" (plus McQueary has a court-certified yellow streak)

[Travis_0004]

7. My first question is why did the franchise not notify the police?

[SunSeeker]

10. Money is my guess.

Subway attributed one third to one half of its growth in sales to Fogle, with revenue having tripled from 1998 to 2011.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Fogle

[ripcord]

15. Why didn't the franchisee go to the police?

If I knew someone was a pedophile I would not go to his employer with it but straight to the cops.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

8. This is tabloid news UK Daily Mail

It is somewhat more detailed .
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3213490/Lawyer-Former-franchisee-alerted-Subway-Fogle.html

Since the FBI was investigating the Jared case and since that's the case interpol is also connected in the big picture investigation .
Child prostitution rings global ,ties into child kidnappings around the globe pedophile criminal enterprises and so fourth.
It's huge. The daily mail article mentions Fogal's trip or trips out of the country -Thailand- a hot spot according to interpol.
The international black market -,child porn. The making and sales and child kidnapping.

The investigative task force is huge involving joint cooperation. It is global.

Predators of that type are prone to taking incredible chances - that obsession gains control over their ability to resist taking those chances . That is what gets them caught. They cannot stop and will not stop until they are stopped.

[Judi Lynn]

9. He must have wanted to be caught. So creepy. n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. I think you are exactly right.

I am stunned by how open he was about his predilection and the the number of people he so easily confided in.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. Lawsuits are coming....