Kevin Trudeau is Going to Prison

[Morgyn]

I’m putting this in the Pit because I hope this thread gets viciously gleeful.

Kevin Trudeau, flimflam artist, parasite on society, and leach on the gullible, is FINALLY going to prison.

To the end, he remained true to his weasely, conniving little self, trying to persuade the judge that he’d turned to prayer and changed. This not long after saying that he couldn’t pay a civil judgement against himself because he was bankrupt, and no, he really doesn’t know what he did with that $100,000 in gold bars he bought a few years ago.

[StusBlues]

He’s going to need some snake oil in a very sensitive place.

[MostlyUseless]

Agree totally. At least the Ronco guy had the Pocket Fisherman. This guy is just a total suit with nothing in it.

[Cubsfan]

Isn’t that the mega memory guy? Also math magic?

[DCnDC]

Well, it’s widely known who and what this guy is, and yet people still bought his bullshit. At least half the blame rests with those suckers.

[Revtim]

Yeah, this is good news. IIRC, one of his books said something like sunscreen causing cancer. His bullshit wasn’t just wrong, it was actively dangerously wrong.

[Morgyn]

@Cubsfan

Isn’t that the mega memory guy? Also math magic?

No, this is the guy who has a line of books that have ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About as the end of the title. Debt Cures, Weight Cures, Natural Cures, etc.

[BlackKnight]

Kevin Trudeau is going to prison and Fred Phelps is near death. It’s springtime in America!

[Leaffan]

I used to watch his infomercials with a certain amount of fascination. Who in the hell was buying this shit? Scanning his Wikipedia page just makes my head explode.

Good riddance.

ETA: Morgyn: He was the Mega Memory guy too. He was into anything and everything that could steal money from the gullible.

[Kamino_Neko]

@Morgyn

No, this is the guy who has a line of books that have ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About as the end of the title. Debt Cures, Weight Cures, Natural Cures, etc.

Who was also the Mega Memory guy.

There’s not a thing that exists that he won’t try to defraud people about, it seems.

[ctnguy]

@Cubsfan

Isn’t that the mega memory guy? Also math magic?

@Morgyn

No, this is the guy who has a line of books that have ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About as the end of the title. Debt Cures, Weight Cures, Natural Cures, etc.

Kevin Trudeu is also the MegaMemory guy. To quote Wikipedia:

The FTC found that the memory system would not enable users to achieve a photographic memory, and the advertising claims were false. Trudeau, along with other marketers, settled out of court for $1.1 million.

[BrainGlutton]

This is a guy who recommends getting 15 colonics in 30 days.

I guess he thinks everybody else is as full of shit as he is.

[Melchior]

@Morgyn

I’m putting this in the Pit because I hope this thread gets viciously gleeful.

Kevin Trudeau, flimflam artist, parasite on society, and leach on the gullible, is FINALLY going to prison.

To the end, he remained true to his weasely, conniving little self, trying to persuade the judge that he’d turned to prayer and changed. This not long after saying that he couldn’t pay a civil judgement against himself because he was bankrupt, and no, he really doesn’t know what he did with that $100,000 in gold bars he bought a few years ago.

Did you know that they forgot to include the word ‘gullible’ in the most recent edition of Webster’s Collegiate?

[StusBlues]

@BrainGlutton

This is a guy who recommends getting 15 colonics in 30 days.

Ah, so he’s been in training for what is forthcoming! Great foresight on his part.

[Maus_Magill]

I’m looking forward to his next book, Incarcerations “We” Don’t Want You to Know About.

[mhendo]

He sold more than 850,000 copies of the weight book, generating $39 million in revenue, prosecutors say.

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[The defense] also contended the harm to any one person would have been less than the cost of the $30 book, so no one can claim the “defendant’s actions shattered lives.”

The math here does not seem to compute. How can selling 850,000 copies of a $30 book generate $39 million in revenue?

[Lanzy]

I’ve never read any of his books as they seemed like total BS, but what did his diet book say that was so much worse than all the other diet books? I thought the “cures” book would get him in prison first.

[Skywatcher]

@mhendo

The math here does not seem to compute. How can selling 850,000 copies of a $30 book generate $39 million in revenue?

A math magician did it.

[Cubsfan]

@mhendo

The math here does not seem to compute. How can selling 850,000 copies of a $30 book generate $39 million in revenue?

They’re including tshirt sales in there.

[Smeghead]

@mhendo

The math here does not seem to compute. How can selling 850,000 copies of a $30 book generate $39 million in revenue?

As I recall, at one point, he was forbidden from selling any sort of weight-loss product or scheme on television. But they couldn’t stop him from selling books - he dressed it up as some sort of First Amendment nonsense. So he started selling books on TV, and when you bought the book, it was basically a 200-page advertisement for a weight-loss scheme, and you had to cough up more money to actually get the weight-loss “secrets” from his website.