INDIANAPOLIS — Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for trading in child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes, with the judge describing his “perversion and lawlessness” as “extreme.”
Judge Tanya Walton Pratt recommended that Fogle receive sex offender treatment in prison and said she’ll recommend he serve his time at a federal lockup in Colorado, that specializes in such treatment.
The prison, on West Quincy Avenue in unincorporated Jefferson County, is formally named Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood. Convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is also housed there.
Pratt disregarded prosecutors’ recommendation that Fogle get 12½ years behind bars, opting for a stiffer term of 15 years and eight months in prison. She could have sentenced him to up to 50 years.
In explaining her sentence, the federal judge noted how fortunate Fogle was to land his lucrative deal to be the face of Subway after he lost more than 200 pounds in college, partly by eating the chain’s sandwiches.
“What a gift, to have such a professional windfall fall in your lap,” she said. But Pratt said Fogle blew the chance he’d been given by living a double life and pointed out that the crimes he committed weren’t victimless. Pratt ordered Fogle to submit to a lifetime of post-prison supervision and pay a $175,000 fine.
