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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Royalty on March 18, 2014, 04:33:33 AM
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(CNN) - Kevin Trudeau, the television pitchman and author who amassed a fortune telling consumers his secrets about how to get free money, how to lose weight and how to cure a number of illnesses the natural way, is headed to federal prison.
Trudeau, 51, was sentenced to 10 years on Monday for criminal contempt for violating a 2004 federal court order that prohibited him from making misleading infomercials and misrepresenting his weight-loss books. During Monday's sentencing hearing he also got a tongue-lashing from U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago.
"Since the age of 25, (Trudeau) has attempted to cheat others for his own personal gain," Guzman said in Monday's sentencing hearing.
In a sentencing memo, prosecutors called Trudeau an "unrepentant, untiring, and uncontrollable huckster who has defrauded the unsuspecting for 30 years."
Trudeau was convicted of criminal contempt by a jury in November 2013 and has been in federal custody since his conviction.
Evidence was presented at his trial that Trudeau appeared in three infomercials in 2006 and 2007, and in those infomercials he misrepresented the contents of one of his weight-loss books. The U.S. attorney said those infomercials were not only untrue, but they violated the 2004 court order that prohibited the infomercials.
According to his book covers, several of his books have been number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/17/justice/illinois-pitch-man/index.html?c=homepage-t
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Some of his claims were outrageous and he did seem like a weasel, but there really are healthy/natural alternatives to the big pharma drugs used to treat conditions and diseases.
The AMA and big pharma have no interest in curing anything. There is NO money in cures. They want you to be sick forever so you can keep taking their pills and taking their treatments until you die.
Big pharma is a $500-600 billion dollar a year industry with 1000-2000% profit margins.
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10 mil networth...well worth a punt
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Nestle's Water uses Tap Water. When last I checked, they said it's Spring Water from the mountains. Another BS case in the USA court systems.
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he sold , sells various things like how to get out of debt when he was in massive debt his commercial was on a channel last week lol, hes been in trouble for many years yet his commercial still plays ???
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The prison sentence he doesn't want you to know about.
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Shoulda stuck to Doonesbury.
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Nestle's Water uses Tap Water. When last I checked, they said it's Spring Water from the mountains. Another BS case in the USA court systems.
go away
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This is harsh. In the USA murderers and pedos get less jail time than a guy who sold books with advice that may/ may not have been bunk. Nobody forced people to purchase the books and how do we know they followed the content 100%. I wonder what precedent this could set, if applied to the supplement i.dustry a lot of people should be facing time
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Nestle's Water uses Tap Water. When last I checked, they said it's Spring Water from the mountains. Another BS case in the USA court systems.
I think it just says purified drinking water on their labels, not spring water.
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This guy is a peice of shit. I'm glad he's back behind bars where he belongs. I don't care about the weight loss or finance lies. It's the cancer and disease cures that piss me off. He took advantage of people and told them to follow his natural cures for cancer. I wonder how many people died because they followed his advise instead of traditional medicine. I hope Tyrone gets a peice of his ass in prison
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This is harsh. In the USA murderers and pedos get less jail time than a guy who sold books with advice that may/ may not have been bunk. Nobody forced people to purchase the books and how do we know they followed the content 100%. I wonder what precedent this could set, if applied to the supplement i.dustry a lot of people should be facing time
Exactly That_Dude. How many big pharma CEO's have "done time" because their drug actually KILLED people? Not only that, but if they wanted to, they could take the prescribing Dr to task, the insurer who covered the bill on the medicine, the pharmacist and intern who dispensed the drug, on down the line. This guy writes some books. Bullshit or not, theres more to the story or they're making an example out of him
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Let's see how he cons his way out of getting buttraped.
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Some of his claims were outrageous and he did seem like a weasel, but there really are healthy/natural alternatives to the big pharma drugs used to treat conditions and diseases.
The AMA and big pharma have no interest in curing anything. There is NO money in cures. They want you to be sick forever so you can keep taking their pills and taking their treatments until you die.
Big pharma is a $500-600 billion dollar a year industry with 1000-2000% profit margins.
I keep hearing this stupid argument, they care about cures moron, how about polio? infections? certain cancers? surgeries?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Truth is, we can't cure everything and it's really really complicated.
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Exactly That_Dude. How many big pharma CEO's have "done time" because their drug actually KILLED people? Not only that, but if they wanted to, they could take the prescribing Dr to task, the insurer who covered the bill on the medicine, the pharmacist and intern who dispensed the drug, on down the line. This guy writes some books. Bullshit or not, theres more to the story or they're making an example out of him
This seems to be the "more to the story" why he got prison time, not paying up his fine.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/18/the-37-6-million-dollar-fine-he-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/#.UyiniPldWSo (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/18/the-37-6-million-dollar-fine-he-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/#.UyiniPldWSo)
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Yet they allow "supplement" companies to say just about anything and put anything they want on the label. I doubt Trudeau's advice killed anyone where the same can't be said about the "supplement companies" :-\
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10 mil networth...well worth a punt
I would have thought he would have a lot more money than that...Still a lot of dough though...
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The prison sentence he doesn't want you to know about.
Bah! ha ha ha ha ha
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Is this artist next? Free Garry Trudeau >:(
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Dr. Oz better watch his back :D
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Dr. Oz better watch his back :D
Isn't Oz a Ggew pretending to be a Muslim? I'm guessing he's protected.
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I keep hearing this stupid argument, they care about cures moron, how about polio? infections? certain cancers? surgeries?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Truth is, we can't cure everything and it's really really complicated.
People still get polio and cancer is NEVER cured... it's treated. They make billions of dollars a year just to treat people to death. It happened to many people in my family including my Dad.
Get your head out of your fucking ass.
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whats with this polio nonsense