The former high-level CNN producer who was accused of running a coast-to-coast child-rape scheme has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually assaulting a nine-year-old-girl that he lured to Vermont.
John Griffin, one-time right hand man to former CNN leftist big mouth Chris Cuomo, paid the girl’s mother more than $3,000 for sex with the child.
The arrest was a major blow to CNN, whose commentators, such as Cuomo, lectured the nation night after night, for four years, about the moral failings of President Trump. As that went on, a top producer combed the internet, looking for parents who would permit him to “sexually train” their daughters.
The conviction won’t likely inspire the hate-Trump network’s big wigs to clean house before attacking Trump or any other Republican they don’t like.
They did nothing when the violent rage-addict Cuomo threatened to assault those whom he believed insulted or crossed him. It waited until a woman accused him of sex assault, after two accused him of harassment, before it fired him.
The Griffin and Cuomo scandals are just two that tarnished the network.
The Charges
But at least the network fired Griffin after the FBI collared him in December last year.
“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,’” prosecutors alleged:
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. The mother and child flew to Boston in July of 2020, where Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to his Ludlow house. At the house, the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity.
Drone footage showed the nine-year-old, naked, standing next to Griffin, who was clad in his underwear.
Prosecutors hit Griffin with three counts of “using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.”
In exchange for a guilty plea to one count, prosecutors dropped the other two. The disgraced producer faces 10 years to life in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
The indictment shows that Griffin is a deranged sex pervert and pedophile.
The mother of the nine-year-old, also charged in the case, also had a 13-year-old Griffin wanted to rape. “It’s your job, in concert with me, [to] see that [the 13-year-old daughter] is trained properly,” Griffin told the mother.
The indictment also alleges that Griffin confessed to the father of a 14-year-old that he “sexually trained” a seven-year-old, a crime for which he will apparently never pay.
Cuomo Unpunished for Too Long, Scandals Galore
Though Griffin did pay with the end of his career, and possibly a life sentence, CNN had little choice. The network couldn’t keep a producer charged with what amounts to raping a nine-year-old.
Not so with a big shot like Cuomo, brother of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was forced from office after multiple women accused him of assault and harassment.
Cuomo survived multiple scandals. They include threatening a bar patron who called him “Fredo” and a cyclist who challenged him for violating Andrew Cuomo’s China Virus quarantine. He even said he disliked his job because he couldn’t tell off critics who angered him, or worse, beat the tar out of them.
Only when CNN learned that their star moonlighted as an advisor to his brother during the latter’s sex scandal did the network act.
Or so everyone thought.
Sometime later, we learned that CNN acted after it received a serious and credible accusation that Cuomo sexually assaulted a woman.
The accusation came from Debra Katz. A high-powered feminist lawyer, she represented sex-assault hoaxtress Christine Blasey Ford, who falsely accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attacking her when they were in high school.
That accusation was the third of three serious allegations. One came from Cuomo’s former boss, another from a producer. The latter feared his legendary rages.
The network also kept homosexual Don Lemon after a bar patron accused him of sexual assault.
The accuser dropped a lawsuit filed against the hate-Trump talker in May.
In yet another scandal for “the most trusted name in news,” CNN marketing chief Allison Gollust quit her job early this year after she was discovered advising Andrew Cuomo. CNN President Jeff Zucker followed her out the door when the network discovered his relationship with her.
After the 2020 presidential election, Project Veritas released audio recordings of Zucker and CNN execs’ discussion of killing the Hunter Biden laptop story. The investigative journalism outfit also caught Zucker on tape ordering his underlings to “go after” GOP U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Neither were firing offenses.
Last, but not least, CNN temporarily suspended chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin after he was caught masturbating during a Zoom meeting. Like Cuomo, Toobin regularly attacked Trump. CNN permitted the cyberwanker to return eight months later. He left the network in August.
