CNN ends 2021 as they did the majority of the year: In the gutter. Late Wednesday, news broke that yet another CNN producer was under “criminal investigation” for sexually preying on minors. This time it was the producer for Jake Tapper’s weekday show The leadRick Saleeby.
According to Fox News media reporter Joseph A. Wulfsohn, the Fairfax County Police Department (Virginia) the “detectives assigned to the Child Exploitation Squad of the Major Crimes Bureau are leading this investigation.” Adding, that Saleeby was the subject of “serious allegations involving potential juvenile victims.”
Saleeby had resigned from his position after Project Veritas exposed “videos and texts show[ing] a primetime producer at CNN fantasizing about sex acts with a child in graphic detail” and how he “solicited sexually explicit photos of the source’s underage daughter.”
This case follows the indictment of the former producer of CNN’s Day of the NewJohn Griffin was arrested by federal authorities in January.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Vermont:
In June of 2020, Griffin advised a mother of 9- and 13-year-old daughters that the mother’s responsibility was to see that her older daughter was “trained properly.” Griffin later transferred over $3,000 to the mother for plane tickets so the mother and her 9-year-old daughter could fly from Nevada to Boston’s Logan airport. Griffin drove the mother and her child to Ludlow House in Ludlow, Massachusetts in July 2020. The mother and child flew to Boston in July 2020. Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to Ludlow House.
The official details from the Fairfax investigation of Saleeby won’t be released just yet. A spokesman told Fox News that “While we will eventually be transparent about our findings, safeguarding the personal privacy and safety of victims and witnesses as well as maintaining the integrity of our criminal investigation are of paramount importance.”
Wulfsohn also reports that “A spokesman for CNN told Fox News Digital, ‘The person in question no longer works for CNN’ and that he had resigned earlier this month.”
Tapper did not make any statements regarding his former producer. He seems to believe he can make amends by speaking out against Ghislaine Maxiwell, a convicting accomplice to Jeffrey Epstein.
“Our legal panel suggested this was largely in the hands of state and local prosecutors, not federal, since the crimes would be state crimes,” he tweeted ThursdayIn response to an inquiry from Maxwell’s show, Maxwell replied that he would not flip on his fellow Epstein workers. “Only 4 of Epstein/Maxwell’s myriad alleged victims were part of this specific prosecution and guilty verdict.”
CNN: What are you doing?
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