Posted on 11/13/2013 4:11:00 AM PST by kindred
Weight-Loss Infomercial Pitch-Man Kevin Trudeau Convicted of Criminal Contempt CHICAGO ― Author and television pitch-man KEVIN TRUDEAU was convicted today of criminal contempt for violating a 2004 federal court order that prohibited him from making deceptive television infomercials that misrepresented the contents of his weight loss cure book. A federal jury deliberated approximately an hour after a week-long trial in U.S. District Court.
Trudeau, 50, of Oak Brook, had his bond revoked and he was ordered taken into custody by U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman, who set a schedule for post-trial motions but no sentencing date.
Criminal contempt has no statutory maximum sentence. The Court must impose a reasonable sentence under federal statutes and the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines.
The guilty verdict was announced by Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Tony Gómez, Inspector-in-Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Chicago; and Robert J. Holley, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to the evidence at trial, Trudeau appeared in three television infomercials between December 2006 and November 2007 in which he willfully misrepresented the contents of his book The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About. In April 2010, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman issued an order to show cause why Trudeau should not be held in criminal contempt of a Sept. 2, 2004, settlement in which Trudeau agreed not to directly or indirectly produce and broadcast any deceptive infomercials that misrepresented the contents of any book, including the weight loss cure book. Federal Trade Commission v. Trudeau, No. 03 C 3904.
In closing arguments today, prosecutors listed a litany of blatant lies and misrepresentations made by Trudeau in his infomercials. These included his claims that his book was not a “diet,” when in fact it required at least three weeks of eating 500 calories or less a day, and that a hormone found only in pregnant women that was required to be injected daily could be obtained “anywhere,” when in fact it could be obtained in the United States only through a doctor’s prescription. He also claimed that after finishing the diet, consumers could eat anything they wanted without regaining weight, when in fact the diet required severe food deprivation that lasts for life.
The government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys April Perry and Marc Krickbaum.
If anyone deserves to be jailed for deception, it’s Obama. He’s been hiding the truth about himself all his life, and his lies only grow more egregious.
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Infomercials are full of lies. What a surprise.
Obamanation lies
About everything, again another big surprise. BUT, the sad part is that the 39% who still worship him, still worship him.
Prison. What “they” don’t want you to know.
Tip: don’t drop the soap. Learn martial arts.
If a guy whose job centers on a ball is rumored to have taken HGH he’ll be interrogated on Capitol Hill for a year on tv.
Much hyped diet = prison
Kill 300 Mexicans = no problem
IRS political terror = no problem
Burn US Embassy = no problem
LOL
Good one!
BUYER BEWARE!
Trudeau has been a criminal for a long time, imo. He was making false claims on TV for at least 20 years if not more. Should have been in jail long ago. One of the worst scammers there ever was. Good riddance to him.
Remember those infomercials where the old goat in suspenders against the black background with lights would “interview” Trudeau? I wonder how many idiots thought they were actually watching Larry King?
Remember those infomercials where the old goat in suspenders against the black background with lights would “interview” Trudeau? I wonder how many idiots thought they were actually watching Larry King?
Yeah, I do.
Now Larry King is doing infomercials...
If you like your diet, you can keep your diet. Period.
If you like the lying Muzzie-Marxist poofter occupying the White Hut, you can keep the lying Muzzie-Marxist poofter occupying the White Hut. Period.
Huh???
“Kevin Trudeau, who has been warning America about the many lies and deceptions and evil of today’s government is dragged into court and found guilty of tell the truth they want to hide.”
The article says he was found guilty of violating a court order not to make deceptive infomercials about some weight loss system.
Any relation to the leftist comicbook boy, Gary Trudeau (Mr. Jane Pauley)?
For $9.95 I’ll tell you my secret biblical money code and send you some heirloom tomato seeds.
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