Ex-Subway Pitchman Jared Fogle Files Notice Of Appeal
INDIANAPOLIS (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle has filed a notice of appeal in the child pornography and sex crime case that sent him to prison for more than 15 years.
Fogle attorney Ron Elberger filed the notice Monday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis on Fogle's behalf. A brief detailing Fogle's arguments in his appeal is due Jan. 25.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota said Tuesday that prosecutors cannot comment yet "because we won't know his grounds for appeal until his brief is filed.''
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago will hear Fogle's appeal.
A federal judge sentenced Fogle on Nov. 19 after he pleaded guilty to one count each of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child pornography.
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He also agreed pay his 14 victims $100,000 each in restitution.
Court documents detailing the charges against the 38-year-old father of two say that Fogle had sex at New York City hotels with two girls under age 18, one of whom was 16 at the time, and paid them for that sex.
Victims also include a 17-year-old-girl prosecutors say joined Fogle at the landmark Plaza Hotel opposite Central Park on Nov. 3, 2012. Fogle found the girl online, prosecutors said.
Several months later, prosecutors say he again paid the same girl for sex acts, this time at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, also across from Central Park.
Fogle became a Subway spokesman after shedding more than 200 pounds as a college student, in part by eating the chain's sandwiches.
Subway ended its relationship with Fogle after authorities raided his home in July.
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