Yeah, my first reaction was “What? The Doonesbury guy is going to prison?”
Trudeau is only a small part of the problem. And we can’t lock 'em all up, can we?
Since I never argue one side without knowing the other side, I’ve read Trudeau’s books. He is a load of crap. His weight loss “cure” is the old HGC hormone technique, which includes a 600 calorie a day diet. He claims that after you eat like that for 60 years, you will be able to eat anything you want in any amount you want with some (like about 100) exceptions.
All in all, he’s going to where he should be.
Don’t con men get the most respect in prison (or whatever low security gig Trudeau winds up with)?
Ron Popiel had some nifty (if somewhat hokey) products and gave people what they paid for. Why insult him by using his name in the same thread as the Douchebag Trudeau?
The Pocket Fisherman is back, too. I just saw a NEW ad for it last night on TV! And the Rotisserie is (apparently, I’ve never used it but the reviews are good) a decent product.
But yeah, Popeil actually gives you a tangible product (even if the quality isn’t as good as he implies). All Trudeau gives you is conspiracy theories, bogus remedies, and a drain on your finances. He’s been such a successful flim-flam man because he used the conspiracy theories to sell you the bogosity, and there are a lot of people out there who believe in conspiracy before science.
Whooooosh to me!
Now that this has been kind of explained, I have to tell you that it is very funny!
No, that’s Pierre Trudeau.
I bought Mega-Memory at Uni & it works really well.
Not sure about his other material/products.
Justin Trudeau, these days…
I looked at the mega memory system he used, as other reported many of the methods were not new, they were repackaged; sure, they would work for some, but the mark of a flim flam artist is to claim that this would be guaranteed to work or your money back.
That offer was in practice not valid by his company if you got the material with a credit card though. :rolleyes:
The FTC made this early press release back in 1998 about his first runs in with the law:
People with learning disabilities or low IQs…
[Looks back to the ones that did use it…] Nahh, too easy. 
What I can say is that mega memory was bound to be useful for some, but not all are able to make it work, hence the reason why the hammer landed on Trudeau for making promises that could not be met. One really needs to be very careful to not fall for crackpots.
In light of what was found, this review from Amazon is a good one to keep in mind:
http://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Trudeaus-Mega-Memory-Superpower/product-reviews/0688153879
Bolding mine.
Heeeey!!! Sci-fi and fantasy are more believable than his crap…put it with those Rush Limbaugh books, over there ====>
When he gets out, or maybe even before, he’ll have his next book – “What THEY Didn’t Want Me To Tell You About Your Fantastic Future!”
A friend of my brother was/is all caught up in Trudeaus bullshit. Even has a picture of him with Trudeau on his Facebook page. I was stunned to hear that and some time ago at a wedding reception I told this guy that I’d always thought he was too smart to buy into crap like this.
The gobbledygook that came out of his mouth was a BLT of conspiracy theory, intellectualism, and insanity. I just walked away. It’s like trying to reason with someone who is snared in a cult.
PUBLIC APOLOGY
I worked with Kevin Trudeau for a couple of years. I was a studio engineer at Nightingale-Conant during the late 80’s until I got fired 16 years ago. I recorded Mega Math and Mega Speed Reading. I condensed Mega Memory from 6 a hour program to a 2 hour program. In order to do that, I had to get Trudeau’s OK for the edits, as stipulated in his contract. I had to work through his attorney, because he was in the Federal pen for credit card fraud. I recorded the training tapes for the Nutrition for Life multi-level marketing scheme he was involved with.
I was the low man on the totem pole at Nightingale, and Kevin Trudeau was part of the stuff I had to deal with.
He told me one day, just as an aside, “I spend most of my time in court with lawyers.”
The speed reading program with Howard Berg was really bad. This was in the day they were publishing 6 cassette programs. Side 12 was Kevin pitching his other products. The program needed a lot of editing, but I was told to push it through fast, and skip the editing. Some distribution company heard it and refused to sell it the way it was, so I was told to re-edit.
There was time to do it over, but not time to do it right in the first place.
When I joined Nightingale-Conant in 1987, there were about 250 employees. It was a well respected motivational and sales training tape company, the best. I was proud of the stuff I worked on, and I learned a lot.
When Trudeau got out of the pen, he and his cellmate Jules got involved in Nutrition for Life, an Amway-style pyramid scheme scam, and we produced the tapes they sold.
Not we, I. I recorded him in Studio A for 2 or 3 years, i don’t remember many details. Jules did a Yoda impression that he thought was hilarious. I had to record this crap, it was my day job. Trudeau did TV infomercials with Danny Bonnaduce about some health products around that time. Nightingale housed the Trudeau Marketing Group in the building for a while, and the morale slid downhill.
People were laid off from Nightingale in a few waves. Mike, Rose, Roger, Steve, and many others. When I was laid off in March of 1997, they fired 50 people that day. The personnel director had a sign on his desk that could be moved around to say, “Have a nice day,” or " Take a hike."
I took a hike. I’m still pissed off and bummed. It was a good company, and buying into Trudeau’s scams cost them their reputation and a lot of jobs, mine among them. I think there are about 35 people working there now. Trudreau is long gone from Nightingale, and they don’t even sell his stuff anymore. He does that on his own.
Before you buy from Kevin Trudeau, read on the internet about the complaints against him.
I’m not making this stuff up. Thanks for letting me rant
that they don’t want you to know about!! I’m sorry, but someone had to do it.
101 Ways to Conceal Things Inside Your Bodily Orifices That THEY Don’t Want You To Know About!*
*No, really. They really really don’t want you to know about them.
True Crime might be more suitable. The books certainly are criminally bad.
Yeah, I remember when Nightingale-Conant had a very good reputation. I think my brother worked there in the 70s–was their warehouse in Des Plaines back then?
I figured since he was in prison his shows wouldn’t be on anymore, but while I was engaged in some insomnia-induced channel surfing, I saw his “debt cures” infomercial on CMT.
Seems so wrong.