Jared Fogle's Child Obesity Foundation an Apparent Sham

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Not surprising.

Jared Fogle had something for minors, but it wasn’t money: Turns out his foundation to help battle childhood obesity did little but raise the Subway pitchman’s profile, USA Today reports. According to tax records, the Jared Fogle Healthy Lifestyle Nationwide School Grant Program spent an average of just $73,000 annually between 2009 and 2013 and never issued a grant. This despite Fogle’s promise to give schools and community organizations $2 million to battle the condition that so affected his own life.

“My goal is to help children avoid the physical and emotional hardships I went through living with obesity,” he said at the time, per a press release. The 2008 release outlined a plan to offer $20,000 grants to up to 50 schools (for a total of $1 million) in that same year.

Seems 60% of the non-profit’s documented expenditures went to executive director Russell Taylor, 43 (now jailed on child pornography charges), and 26% went who knows where. What’s more, records show that his organization hadn’t paid a $5 yearly registration fee to the State of Indiana since 2008, when the non-profit was slated to begin operations. In fact, Indiana dissolved the Jared Fogle Healthy Lifestyle Nationwide School Grant Program three years ago, although it’s still recognized by the IRS.

[closeupready]

1. Wow. Whole lot of messed-up going on there.

The saga undoubtedly will continue. K&R

[PoliticAverse]

2. That's some fine governmental oversight there - not. n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

3. IRS enforcement

cuts will do that.

[daleanime]

5. +1

[HFRN]

4. '“My goal is to help children avoid the physical and emotional hardships'

couldn't he more easily do that by not pushing them to have sex with a slob?

[KT2000]

6. so was his weight loss

as a result of eating only at Subway a scam too?
He may be a con from the get go. He sure is one now.

[JI7]

7. it seems like a lot of charities are about making certain people look good

at my business i get a lot of people who always want something for charity. a lot of it is stuff for some party to auction off stuff and i'm wondering if they couldn't just put all the money that goes into getting dressed up, setting up the party etc and just give that to the cause rather than go through all the bs ?

[oberliner]

9. Wealthy people need to create meaning in their lives

Those charity events are one way to do so.

[Javaman]

8. what gets me is that he was under FBI watch for 10 years!

I know they were trying to see if he would lead them to other creeps, but damn, they knew about his creepy habits for 10 years!

[Miles Archer]

10. I see Fogle and I just see a predator.

Whatever the underlying psychological reasons may be, it's predator behavior, it was a game that he enjoyed playing, and now it's time the piper.