NEW YORK_A CNBC director who worked on finance guru Suze Orman's show has been accused of peeping on his teenage au pair with a spy-cam in a bathroom of his Westchester home, The New York Daily News has learned.
Dan Switzen, 44, hid a camera inside a tissue box in his home in Pleasantville, according to authorities.
On Nov. 13, his 18-year-old live-in nanny invited two of her friends, also 18, over to the house and one of them discovered the camera in the bathroom, sources said.
The horrified teens took the camera to Pleasantville police about 7:50 p.m. that night and cops found incriminating images on its memory card.
Cops secured a search warrant, then arrested Switzen on a felony count of unlawful surveillance.
"He intentionally installed a video recording device in a tissue box located in his family's bathroom to surreptitiously view a person dressing or undressing ... at a place and time when (the victim) had a reasonable expectation of privacy without (her) knowledge or consent," the complaint filed in Pleasantview Village Court reads.
Switzen was released without bail, said his lawyer, Jeffrey Chartier.
"He's a very decent family man. I don't want to litigate these allegations in the press," Chartier said. "We will defend him accordingly."
When reached over the phone, Switzen said, "No comment at all. Thanks, bye," before hanging up.
Switzen directed "The Suze Orman Show" on CNBC for more than a decade, and was most recently listed as a director for the network's "Power Lunch" program.
A CNBC spokeswoman declined to comment on Switzen's arrest.
