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Used hidden cam to spy on teen au pair: cops

- BY LAURA DIMON, ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA and JOHN ANNESE With Thomas Tracy

A 58-YEAR-OLD motorist died early Wednesday in a head-on collision in Brooklyn, police said.

Oladele Adaramola of Valley Stream, L.I., was turning off Rockaway Blvd. onto Linden Blvd. when his Nissan Rogue ended up in the oncoming lane — right in the path of a white commercial van, police said.

The van and the Rogue collided A CNBC director who worked on finance guru Suze Orman’s show has been accused of peeping on his teenage au pair with a spycam in a bathroom of his Westcheste­r County home, the 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, head-on about 4:10 a.m., destroying the front ends of both vehicles.

Medics rushed Adaramola to Brookdale University Hospital, but doctors were unable to save him.

The 73-year-old driver of the van was taken to Kings County Hospital with minor injuries. 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 Pleasantvi­lle Village Court reads.

Switzen was released without bail, lawyer Jeffrey Chartier.

“He’s a very decent family man. I don’t want to litigate these said his 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.

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Thomas Tracy Car and van are mangled after they crashed early Wednesday in Brooklyn.
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