Posted on 04/02/2008 7:08:47 AM PDT by mnehring
Best-selling author Kevin Trudeau violated a 2004 court order by making "patently false" claims in one of his books about a weight-loss regimen, a federal court said in a ruling released Monday.
The ruling found Trudeau in contempt of a 2004 court order that barred him from using infomercials to sell any product or service other than books and required that he not misrepresent the content of those books.
Trudeau made the claims in several infomercials promoting his book "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About," the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled last fall. The book was on several best-seller lists in 2007 and 2008.
Trudeau "clearly misrepresents in his advertisements the difficulty of the diet described in his book, and by doing so, he has misled thousands of consumers," Judge Robert W. Gettleman wrote.
Trudeau said in his infomercials that the diet is "easy" and can be done at home, but Gettleman noted that it requires walking a mile a day outdoors, 15 detoxifying colonics in a 30-day period and daily injections of a prescription drug not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for weight loss.
Additional claims that once consumers complete the regimen they can eat "anything they want" are "patently false," Gettleman said, because the book requires lifelong dietary restrictions.
The Federal Trade Commission charged in September that Trudeau was in contempt of the 2004 settlement. The FTC, which has tangled with Trudeau several times, sued him in 2003 for deceptively marketing a calcium product as a cancer cure and a product called Biotape as a pain reliever.
Trudeau paid $2 million in 2004 to settle the FTC's charges and agreed to the court order prohibiting him from infomercials except those that accurately promote books.
Despite no formal medical training and several criminal convictions, Trudeau has sold millions of books under titles such as "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About" and "More Natural Cures Revealed." He claims in his informercials that he has been a longtime target of government persecution.
He pleaded guilty to larceny in 1990 in Massachusetts after being charged with depositing $80,000 in worthless checks. The following year, he pleaded guilty to credit-card fraud in federal district court and was sentenced to nearly two years in prison.
The FTC first sued Trudeau in 1998, charging that he made false and unsubstantiated claims in infomercials for hair growth, memory and weight-loss products.
A lawyer for Trudeau did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
You would think with his “Amazing Memory” tricks he would remember the rules of his last run in with the judge...
Hooray! I run across his infomercials on TV from time-to-time. I read a few pages in his book at the store and immediately knew he was a wingnut when he recommended colon therapy.
I saw this putz pushing his panaceas on an infomercial just last evening.
This slickster blinks too much during his infomercial scams. That’s all I needed.
I’m waiting for the ColonCleanser guru to go down next. The guy actually looks like a turd. Amazing.
Someone very near and dear to me is a fan, and one of his books was given to me. Throughout the book, he claims he has natural cures the government won’t let him reveal in the book, but you can go to his website and pay more money to find out what they are... lol.
So how does one get the FTC involved with Gore and his snake oil carbon credits?
I have several friends who are fairly reasonable about most things. When it comes to Trudeau, however, I just lose it with them. They really believe the government, at the behest of doctors and big drug companies have conspired against Trudeau in order to keep the truth about all his cures from the masses.
Even when you point out his past run ins with the law, his having no medical background, it is if you are part of the conspiracy against their crusader. Geez.
I posted before I read your post #8, and my post is almost a duplicate of yours. Sounds like we were given the same book.
I LOVE checking out scams. Somebody gave me a copy of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” and I began reading. Less than halfway through the book, I said to myself, “Wow! This guy is a great story teller, but NONE OF THIS IS TRUE. NOT ONE DAMNED WORD!” Went to the computer, googled the little maggot, and there he was, on ABC admitting that he basically made the whole thing up. The pock-mark faced, little lying monkey maggot.
LoL,
Thanks for the hint.. I googled that and found this gem.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=1982669&page=1
Yeah, go to the library and get the book. You can stop where the kids start a “comic book library.” As you read, just keep asking yourself “Can this possibly be true?” Read in that light, his lies are comical.
Yep that’s the ColonCleanser huckster with the turd-like visage.
Now, I ask you does he not resemble a piece of poo poo, a chuck of CaCa, a gob of guano, a dollop of dung, a fragment of feces.....
I have always thought that. It’s weird.
John Waters
“There is some gay guy on VH1 all the time who is an expert on B movies and pop culture who looks just like him.”
..Fag Feces?
..Poof Poop?
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