Best-Selling Author Kevin Trudeau Gets 10 Years In Prison For Massive Deception

Business Insider ^ | 03/18/2014 | MICHAEL TARM

[skinkinthegrass]

Corzine is still running loose.
'E in the "protected" cla$$; very few Liberals/RINOs ever...
go to jail/prison, shown here, is the exception.

[listenhillary]

Obama’s deception will create more economic chaos than any self help author could imagine.

[Aria]

Two problems

He isn’t black or whatever flavor of the day

He must not have paid off his favorite rats.

[Sherman Logan]

Trudeau's weight-loss book describes a grueling, 500-calorie-a-day diet, as well as hormone treatments. The deception, Guzman explained, came in Trudeau's infomercials that misrepresented the contents of the book as laying out "a simple, no hunger ... diet-free method of losing weight," which enticed more people to buy the book.

You can write a book saying anything you want to, but you can't advertise the book as not requiring dieting when it does. That's fraud.

Although I suspect anybody who followed the diet did indeed lose weight!

[DariusBane]

The Way To Get Free Healthcare “They Won’t Tell You About”.

[who knows what evil?]

I understood that...just a general comment on the entire situation.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I guess this proves they really, really don't want us to know about the stuff he wrote about.

[Delta Dawn]

I always turned the tv channel when he would come on.

Just curious, who made the decision that he was defrauding people when he sold his books?

Something about airlifting stones whilst encased in a melted-sand abode...

[Sacajaweau]

ridiculous....Will Dr. Oz be next??

He says he's not associated with any of the things he's "selling"...but they have to be sponsors of some sort.

[TexasCajun]

Everyone knows that “Free Money” only comes from Obama’s stash!

[skinkinthegrass]

that was the only one given (pictures-wise);
many more can be found easily...

[MUDDOG]

Perfect!

[funfan]

So what is the difference between this man selling his cures then Cosmetic companies selling you lotion after lotion promising younger looking skin? Or cosmetic companies telling you that the plumping mascara will make your lashes look younger which they don’t unless you have long lashes to begin with.

[DouglasKC]

someone should photoshop this and put Obama on the covers and change the titles to "If You Like Your Healthcare Plan, You Can Keep It".

And "If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Him"

And "Obamacare is Revenue Neutral."

[HamiltonJay]

The problem wasn’t he was selling snake oil, he was selling snake oil in defiance of federal court orders he was subject to. That my friends will get you in the hoosgow.

If you want to write a book about losing weight that requires folks to follow a 500 calorie a day diet, fine... But when you go on TV and tell people your book tells you how to lose weight without being hungry on a 500 calorie a day diet, you are going to get yourself in trouble.

This guys been a bamboozler his entire life, and had courts order him to stop doing it for decades, he kept on doing it... Finally caught up to him.

Lie with dogs, wake up with fleas.

[Sacajaweau]

ah....the piece de resistance

[Vigilanteman]

I'd say so. If this is considered fair, then at least 3/4th of congress and this administration needs to be serving life terms for doing far worse.

Maybe there is something in one or more of his books which really struck a nerve.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Something doesn’t smell right here. They are criminalizing opinion.

If you read the article, there are a lot of bad facts here.

The Federal Trade Commission sued him (civilly) for false advertising. He lost, and there was a court order against him to stop running the ads and pay restitution. He continued to run the ads-- 32,000 times after the court order-- and hid all his money in shell companies to avoid paying the restitution.

The criminal conviction was not for the original false advertising, but for criminal contempt of court.

[stinkerpot65]

This gets more headlines for corrupt prosecutors.

[Calvin Locke]

Nuts, for a moment I thought this was Gary Trudeau.

William F. Buckley thought when his son was talking about "Trudeau", he was referring to Pierre.

All those Elis stick together...