Franchisee says she reported Jared Fogle to Subway in 2008 when he admitted sleeping with 9-year-old girl
Did Subway know about the horrible allegations against Jared Fogle for years before he was prosecuted? Former franchisee Cindy Mills claims that the company knew, and did nothing.
Cindy (and her attorney) shared the allegations in an interview with Business Insider. Cindy said she met Jared at a Subway event in 2008. He soon began confessing his disturbing crimes to her.
“He would just tell me he really liked them young,” she said, explaining Jared told her he slept with prostitutes as young as nine while Thailand. Before Jared’s arrest, Cindy anonymously claimed she turned over text messages to the FBI in which Jared admitted to paying for sex with a minor in New York City.
Before going to the FBI, Cindy said she told Subway about her concerns. She was told they couldn’t do anything because Jared was not a direct employee–he just worked for the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust (SFAFT).
Cindy next relayed the information to Jeff Moody, then-CEO of SFAFT, but Moody only told her he’d heard similar complaints in the past.
“He said, ‘Don’t worry, he has met someone. She is a teacher and he seems to love her very much, and we think she will help keep him grounded,'” Cindy said of her conversation with Jeff.
Even though Cindy hired a lawyer at the time, she initially didn’t go to authorities because she was worried about Subway’s influence. She said, “I thought, ‘No one is going to believe me, he looks like the all-American boy’—but he’s not.”
Earlier this week, a Subway spokesperson told People there is no evidence anyone alerted them to Jared’s crimes before this summer. According to the rep, “When we first heard about an alleged complaint being made to the company about Jared Fogle, we immediately investigated and found no record that this was ever brought to our attention.”
Jared faces a minimum of five years in prison for multiple counts of child pornography and paying for sex with minors.
