The longtime pitchman for the Subway fast food chain agrees to plead guilty to engaging in sex acts with minors and receiving child pornography.
Jared Fogle, 37, was famous in the United States as “the Subway Guy” after claiming he lost 200 pounds (90 kilograms) in college by eating healthily at Subway sandwich shops.
Court documents released Wednesday indicate that Fogle, who is Jewish, is to plead guilty to one count of traveling to engage in illicit sex with girls under the age of 18.
Fogle — due to appear later Wednesday in US District Court in Indianapolis, Indiana — is also to plead guilty to one count of receiving child pornography.
In addition, Fogle would pay $100,000 to each of his 14 under-aged victims, register as a sex offender and accept a prison sentence of no less than five years.
Federal prosecutors in return will not ask for a prison term in excess of 12-and-a-half years.
— AFP
In this May 28, 2014 photo, Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle arrives at the world premiere of “Maleficent” at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
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