CNN producer John Griffin was arrested by the FBI on Friday after a federal grand jury charged him with enticing minors to engage in “unlawful sexual activity” at his Vermont property.
Griffin, 44 of Stamford, Connecticut, was charged with three counts of “using a facility of interstate commerce” to lure minors and people claiming to be their parents to train them to be sexually subservient, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont said in a statement.
Court documents did not list an attorney for Griffin, who has worked at CNN for about eight years, according to a story posted by the network.
“The charges against Mr. Griffin are deeply disturbing. We only learned of his arrest yesterday afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation,” CNN said in a statement.
According to his Linkedin profile, Griffin said he worked “shoulder to shoulder” with ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who was
