A new filing from the prosecutor in the case against former CNN producer John Griffin contains horrid new details about the sex crimes with which the network big wig is charged.
Citing the court document, the Daily Mail reported yesterday that Griffin offered a woman $30,000 for a weekend with her and her daughter. And drone footage captured Griffin standing next to the nine-year-old trafficked by her adoptive mother.
Griffin was clad in his underwear. The girl was naked.
The court document also accuses Griffin of trying to pay off a possible witness.
FBI agents collared Griffin two weeks ago in connection with a coast-to-coast child-rape scheme in which he importuned parents to let him “sexually train” their daughters. He had sex with mothers and daughters, and watched them have sex with each other.
In Nevada, authorities have charged the adoptive mother.
Girls Must Be “Trained Properly”
Trouble began for the wealthy CNN hot shot when FBI agents arrested him on December 10. He committed the crimes last summer, prosecutors allege:
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.” 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.
The indictment also said the CNN man tried to lure girls to his Vermont ski house for “spanking” and “c–k worship.” Griffin confessed to a father that he “sexually-trained” a seven-year-old girl, prosecutors allege.
In the chats with mothers, Griffin called women the “dirtiest sluts imaginable,” and said a “woman is a woman regardless of her age.” “It’s your job, in concert with me,” he wrote to one mother, to train a 13-year-old for sex.
Now, prosecutor Nikolas Kerest has released new details about Griffin’s unslakable thirst for little girls.
“Little B**ch”
They came in a filing from prosecutors in response to a request from Griffin’s attorney that Griffin be released, the Daily Mail reported.
“Griffin has tried to deceive, delete, and spend his way out of being held accountable,” federal prosecutor Nikolas Krest wrote. “He is a wealthy man who will be desperate to avoid facing justice.”
Continued the Mail:
In February 2020, Griffin allegedly offered a woman $30,000 for a “mother daughter weekend or week with me.” He stressed that while he did not want to have intercourse with the daughter, “of course” he expected there to be “SEXUALITY involved.”
Less than two weeks later, Griffin offered another woman $5,000 in exchange for having sex with him in the presence of her children, according to the motion.
As for the nine-year-old, prosecutors have drone video that shows “the completely naked nine-year-old girl, standing immediately next to Griffin in his underwear,” Kerest wrote.
Griffin offered a darkly amusing excuse for the footage, the newspaper reported. He also paid a ton of hush money to a witness:
“Griffin’s first response was merely to suggest he was not looking at the naked girl, despite that she was standing so close to him to be touching,” the motion alleged.
The girl would later accuse Griffin of sexually assaulting her, telling FBI agents that he called her a “little s***,” “little wh***,” and “little b****.”
After the mother and daughter returned to Nevada, he exchanged messages with their relative, denying any wrongdoing.
The relative replied that while the mother was “too pilled out to remember, little one do [sic],” and added: “U lmk if ur feeling helpful within the hour or so.” A short time later, Griffin sent the relative $4,000 through Venmo.
“This apparent pay-off of a potential witness is not only further evidence of wrong-doing, it is an independent reason for Griffin’s detention,” the prosecutor wrote.
Police arrested the nine-year-old’s adoptive mother in August 2020.
Kerest also argued that Griffin, charged with drunk driving in October 2020 after he smashed into another car, tried to pay off the other driver.
Character witnesses have withdrawn letters they wrote to support Griffin, Kerest alleged. One such witness said Griffin “blatantly lied” about the “nature of the investigation.”
“That Griffin employed false pretenses to obtain a letter of support undermines any argument that Griffin’s character is sound,” the prosecutor wrote. “Such tactics indicate an unusual degree of desperation not to be held accountable.”
Strangely, Griffin appears to have practically admitted guilt when arrested:
Kerest also revealed that after Griffin was arrested on December 10, he told FBI agents, unprompted: “without incriminating myself, I just want to let you guys know that I’m ashamed you even know my name at all.”
The disgraced CNN producer added: “In the time I’m with you guys, in the event I do anything inappropriate, I just want you to know that I’d feel the same way you guys would if I were in your situation. Thank you.”
Griffin not only produced Cuomo’s programs but also was the disgraced anchor’s boon companion, photos show.
