CNN Staffer and Chris Cuomo's Former Producer Arrested

John Griffin’s LinkedIn profile lists his job as Senior Producer at CNN, where he started in April of 2013. in the description of his job, he writes":

LEAD ANCHOR’S SENIOR PRODUCER, CNN “NEW DAY.” Works shoulder-to-shoulder with lead anchor Chris Cuomo, seeing him through each show and producing live breaking news across the country and around the world.

It was just over a week ago that CNN fired Chris Cuomo for his role in helping his brother, former NY Gov Andrew Cuomo, and the allegations against him.

Now, some allegations are being leveled against his former Producer that is truly disturbing.

John Griffin was arrested Friday by FBI agents after a federal grand jury in Vermont charged him with three counts of attempting to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity. The counts allege that Griffin used a 'facility of interstate commerce to abuse underage girls.'

According to the indictment, between April and July of 2020, Griffin utilized the messaging applications Kik and Google Hangouts to communicate with people purporting to be parents of minor daughters, conveying to them, among other ideas, that a 'woman is a woman regardless of her age,' and that women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men,' according to a statement from the Department of Justice on the case.

The indictment claims that Griffin told a mom of two girls, aged 9 and 13 that she needed to have her daughters 'trained properly.'

Griffin is alleged to have sent her $3,000 in order to pay for plane tickets so that she could travel with her daughters from Nevada to Boston, according to the indictment. 

After the trio flew to Boston, Griffin collected them at the airport before driving them to his home in Ludlow, Vermont.

Prosecutors say the girl was forced to engage in illegal sexual contact.

CNN released a statement, “'We take the charges against Mr. Griffin incredibly seriously,” the statement said, “We only learned of his arrest this afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation.”