[Sans-Culotte]

Seems a bit much for selling snake oil.

[who knows what evil?]

...so if his books were all so much BS, why did people keep buying them? Ridiculous sentence. Corzine is still running loose.

[Star Traveler]

As always ... it’s “buyer beware” ...

[El Cid]

I agree - it sounds bizarre.
So he wrote a bunch of books full of blarney and exaggerated claims. Big deal -- there are whole industries built on that methodology. If people choose to bite - that is their prerogative.
There are chronic liars in our Government who cause a heckuva lot more damage and that force us to pay for their blarney (and crap sandwiches) against our choice. Those folks should be spending time breaking rocks.

[Lizavetta]

So when does the Kenyan get to do the perp walk in a cuffs and an orange jumpsuit? Talk about massive deception and fraud.

[Sacajaweau]

ridiculous....Will Dr. Oz be next??

He says he's not associated with any of the things he's "selling"...but they have to be sponsors of some sort.

[funfan]

So what is the difference between this man selling his cures then Cosmetic companies selling you lotion after lotion promising younger looking skin? Or cosmetic companies telling you that the plumping mascara will make your lashes look younger which they don’t unless you have long lashes to begin with.

[HamiltonJay]

The problem wasn’t he was selling snake oil, he was selling snake oil in defiance of federal court orders he was subject to. That my friends will get you in the hoosgow.

If you want to write a book about losing weight that requires folks to follow a 500 calorie a day diet, fine... But when you go on TV and tell people your book tells you how to lose weight without being hungry on a 500 calorie a day diet, you are going to get yourself in trouble.

This guys been a bamboozler his entire life, and had courts order him to stop doing it for decades, he kept on doing it... Finally caught up to him.

Lie with dogs, wake up with fleas.

[Vigilanteman]

I'd say so. If this is considered fair, then at least 3/4th of congress and this administration needs to be serving life terms for doing far worse.

Maybe there is something in one or more of his books which really struck a nerve.

[Bluebeard16]

I bet he’s a changed man. Cook county jail will do that to you!