CNBC director accused of spying on nanny with bathroom camera in Pleasantville home

A CNBC director accused of spying on his teenage nanny by installing a camera in a bathroom at his Pleasantville home said nothing during and after a quick appearance in Village Court on Tuesday night.

Daniel Switzen's case has been continued to March 13.

Switzen, 44, who allegedly placed the camera inside a tissue box, left the courthouse Tuesday without responding to reporters and got into a sport-utility vehicle where a woman, who moments earlier had left the court, was waiting to drive them away.

The nanny was entertaining friends at the house on Anne Place on the evening of Nov. 13 when the camera was discovered. They took it to Pleasantville police and Switzen, a married father of two, was arrested early the next morning.

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Switzen placed "a video recording device in the bathroom of his residence for his own amusement and or entertainment to surreptitiously view and or record a person dressing or undressing the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent," according to the complaint filed by Pleasantville police.

The complaint indicated that Switzen's 9-year-old son, 7-year-old daughter and "multiple" nannies had access to the bathroom.

It was unclear how long the camera was there.

Switzen was charged with second-degree unlawful surveillance, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. He was released without bail.

“Dan is a very decent family man and these allegations have taken a serious toll on him and his family and that’s why we don’t want to litigate this in the press,” said his lawyer, Jeffrey Chartier, who declined to comment further about the case.

Switzen was a director of "The Suze Orman Show" and "Power Lunch" on CNBC.

A CNBC spokesperson said the network had no comment on Switzen’s arrest or his work status.

Staff writer Michael P. McKinney contributed to this report.

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