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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.