Another Former CNN Employee Under Investigation for Sexual Misconduct Involving Juveniles

The police department in Fairfax County, Virginia, has officially launched an investigation into former CNN senior Producer, Rick Saleeby. According to Fox News Digital, the police department said they are investigating “serious allegations involving potential juvenile victims" The Fairfax County PD said, "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.” Before the investigation was confirmed by the Fairfax County Police Department, Project Veritas, the investigative news organization, released the findings from their investigations into CNN. In one of the reports released by Project Veritas, they exposed FaceTime calls, text messages, and conversations that Saleeby had with a former sex worker about his juvenile stepdaughter. These conversations were graphic and depicted sexual fantasies that he held about his under-aged stepdaughter. The full interview from Project Veritas can be found here. (Viewer Discretion Advised). According to Fox News Digital, the Fairfax County Police Department has been in contact with Project Veritas as well as those potentially affected in this investigation.

This is this second CNN employee accused of sexual misconduct involving a minor this month. Former CNN producer John Griffin was arrested and charged with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Griffin allegedly used online messaging services to convince the parents of young girls that the girls need to be trained to “be sexually subservient and inferior to men” and that a “woman is a woman regardless of her age”. In June of 2020 Griffin persuaded the mother of 9-and 13-year old daughters that the older daughter needed to be trained properly. The mother and the 9-year-old flew to Boston in July of 2020 to meet Griffin. Griffin finance the trip. Griffin picked the mother and daughter up from the airport and drove them to his house where the daughter was asked to engage in unlawful sexual acts. Griffin’s indictment also alleged that he enticed two other children to engage in sexual activity online.

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These are just the two most recent accusations of misconduct at CNN. Project Veritas also exposed others at the company for misconduct that has yet to be investigated by the authorities. Additionally, CNN recently fired one of their primary nightly hosts, Chris Cuomo from the network. Chris Cuomo was terminated for his inappropriate involvement with his brother Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, during the Covid-19 nursing home crisis cover-up as well as the allegations of sexual misconduct.

CNN continues to face declining viewership and lower ratings. Misconduct and scandals from among their staff continue to be revealed. Along with a string of lawsuits from the past year, things are not looking good for CNN.