An attorney representing former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is blasting news reports about his client which he claims are false. Bose McKinney & Evans attorney Ron Elberger says claims made by a Sarasota woman that she secretly-recorded telephone conversations with FBI agents are untrue. "The story is a fabrication that clearly lacks credibility," Elberger told the Indianapolis Star.
Elberger is also disputing a story that originated in a VH-1 Best Week Ever report, which claimed Fogle ran a porn movie rental business out of an apartment building in Bloomington above the Subway franchise he supposedly began frequenting as a college student and experienced his dramatic weight loss. That story claimed Fogle was too lazy to walk any further than the Subway on the first floor of his apartment building because he was too busy renting porn movies to college students for a dollar a day. "It is false, and absurd," Elberger said of that story.
The Indianapolis Star report this morning distances itself from those claims reported widely elsewhere in the media, although it featured a story in Sunday's edition which strongly implied Russell Taylor, the former executive director of the Jared Foundation founded by Fogle to combat childhood obesity who is facing federal child pornography charges, is cooperating with the ongoing investigation of Fogle.
Today's story recounts Fogle's claim that he was a 425-pound freshman at IU in 1998 when he miraculously lost 235 pounds on a diet of turkey and veggie Subway sandwiches. Fogle supposedly wrote to Subway about his weight loss story, which led to his long-standing role as a spokesman for the franchise. Fogle has supposedly amassed a $15 million fortune pitching Subway sandwiches. I don't know about you folks, but I always thought Fogle's weight loss claim from eating Subway sandwiches was a total fraud.
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Fifteen million buys a lot of spin from Bose lawyers, but the feds have a way of cutting thru all that. The truth is out there. It may take a while.
I know the family and the weight loss story is true. He quit eating excessively large portions of food--whole large pizzas. The Subway portions were much more controlled. Local Subway employees working at that Bloomington Subway verified this.
If the allegations are untrue they may have just made Fogle a few more millions.
Don't know if Fogle is guilty or not, but the Florida woman's story sounds more credible to me than what the attorney is saying...
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