A high producer for Jake Tapper has been arrested as a part of a prison investigation into allegations of misconduct involving 'juvenile victims,' simply weeks after one other CNN producer, for Chris Cuomo, was fired for attractive a minor.
Rick Saleeby, a former producer for Jake Tapper's The Lead, was pressured to resign from the community after his arrest on December 18.
Fairfax County, Virginia police have launched a probe into 'severe allegations involving potential juvenile victims' and that 'detectives assigned to the Little one Exploitation Squad of the Main Crimes Bureau are main this investigation.
It comes only a week after one other senior CNN producer, John Griffin, was fired after being arrested on December 10 for intercourse crimes involving youngsters.
Griffin was charged with making an attempt to influence minors to interact in illegal sexual exercise after a year-long investigation the place he was accused of flying a lady and a 9-year-old woman, described as her adoptive daughter, to coach the woman in 'sexual subservience.'
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The investigation into Saleeby's sordid double life was allegedly prompted by reporting by Undertaking Veritas, a conservative journalism outlet.
'Whereas we'll ultimately be clear about our findings, safeguarding the non-public privateness and security of victims and witnesses in addition to sustaining the integrity of our prison investigation are of paramount significance,' a spokesman for Fairfax County Police stated in a press release.
The Fairfax County Police Division confirmed that it had been in communication with CNN, in addition to Saleeby's reported victims.
'The individual in query now not works for CNN' and resigned earlier this month, a spokesman for CNN stated in a press release.
The information of Saleeby's arrest and resignation comes shortly after the arrest of Griffin - a producer for fellow-disgraced CNN expertise Chris Cuomo - who's at the moment going through federal intercourse crime costs involving youngsters following his arrest earlier this month.
Griffin is accused of being part of a BDSM ring involving youngsters.
'The costs in opposition to Mr. Griffin are deeply disturbing. We realized of his arrest Friday afternoon and terminated his employment Monday,' a CNN spokesperson advised Fox Information earlier this month.
Police seized 'quite a few objects from the topic's Virginia residence,' in keeping with the outlet's spokesperson, nevertheless they declined so as to add any additional particulars.
Though Saleeby was given the chance to resign from the community, Griffin was fired instantly following his arrest on costs of attractive minors for intercourse.
Griffin was charged by a grand jury in Vermont 'with three counts of utilizing a facility of interstate commerce to try to entice minors to interact in illegal sexual exercise.'
The 42-year-old Stamford resident allegedly supplied a Nevada lady, recognized as 48-year-old Heather Carriker, of Henderson, $30,000 for a 'mom daughter weekend with me,' earlier than revealing to authorities that he was 'ashamed' after being taken into custody for allegedly abusing a nine-year-old woman and attractive different minors.
'In accordance with the indictment, from April to July of 2020, Griffin utilized the messaging functions Kik and Google Hangouts to speak with folks purporting to be dad and mom of minor daughters, conveying to them, amongst different concepts, {that a} "woman is a woman regardless of her age," and that girls ought to be sexually subservient and inferior to males,' the US Lawyer's Workplace in Vermont wrote in a press release.
'On these communication platforms, Griffin sought to influence dad and mom to permit him to coach their daughters to be sexually submissive. In June of 2020, Griffin suggested a mom of 9- and 13-year-old daughters that the mom's duty was to see that her older daughter was "trained properly."'
'Griffin later transferred over $3,000 to the mom for airplane tickets so the mom and her 9-year-old daughter might fly from Nevada to Boston's Logan airport.'
'The mom and little one flew to Boston in July of 2020, the place Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to his Ludlow home. On the home, the daughter was directed to interact in, and did interact in, illegal sexual exercise,' the assertion learn.
In April 2020, Griffin reportedly tried to entice two different minors for intercourse, after he 'proposed to interact in a "virtual training session" over a video chat that would come with him instructing the mom and her 14-year-old daughter to take away their clothes and contact one another at his course,' in keeping with the US Lawyer's Workplace in Vermont.
A number of months later in June 2020, authorities stated Griffin 'proposed to a purported mom of a 16-year-old daughter that she take a "little mother-daughter trip" to Griffin's Ludlow ski home for sexual coaching involving the kid.'
In accordance with his former employer, CNN was utterly unaware of Griffin's actions previous to his arrest.
'Previous to his arrest and indictment, we had no data in regards to the case,' a CNN spokesman advised Fox Information.
Griffin had beforehand labored alongside one other embattled former CNN worker, Chris Cuomo, earlier than Cuomo landed his personal primetime present in 2018.
He was a senior producer for CNN's morning program 'New Day' earlier than his arrest and subsequent termination from the community.
