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Kevin Trudeau banned from Infomercial for three years

With 9/11 trutherism fast becoming a dead issue maybe it time to take on scams of a different kind. Huckster Kevin Trudeau with his conspiracy theorist laden outlook on traditional medicine, finance and weight loss has been banned by the FTC from making infomercials for three years and was fined $5 Million. Seems his dieting book was a bit deceptive. Judge Robert W. Gettleman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois noted:

the diet protocol could not be done “easily” and “at home,” because the protocol described in Trudeau’s book requires colonics, which must be done at the office of a licensed practitioner, as well as injection of human growth hormone;

dieters could not “complete” or “finish” Trudeau’s four-phase program, because Trudeau’s book states that “Phase 4 is for the rest of your life”;

dieters could not eat “anything” they want, because Trudeau’s book prescribes that dieters following Phase 4 must eat “only 100% organic food,” and no “brand name” food, “fast food,” or “food served by regional or national chain restaurants”; and

the diet protocol did not require “no exercise,” because Trudeau’s book states that three of the diet’s four phases, including Phase 4, require walking one hour outside every day.

This of course is not the first time Trudeau has run afoul of the FTC, in 1998 they charged him with making false and misleading claims in infomercials for products that he claimed could cure addictions to heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, and help you lose weight as well.

In 2003 Trudeau claimed in infomercials that a product called Coral Calcium Supreme could cure cancer. The FTC again filed a contempt action and fined him 2 million. After that Kevin changed his tactics and stopped directly pimping snake oil but instead he started to write books…… Books that in essence compelled you to buy the same worthless cures he had been pushing for years.

Trudeau latest scam? Well like any good con man he has jumped onto the next big social problem, DEBT. And of course his “Expert” advice to those with money problems is to make MORE money and spend LESS money. Or you could follow Kevin’s lead and cheat lie and steal it.