not exactly "new" news but......
I was wondering why we hadn't been hearing anything from Kevin Trudeau lately. Turns out the pulled the plug on him and his con operation. Saying one thing and the truth being another caught up with Trudeau and he got jail time for being a "fraudster". Perhaps he should have gone into politics instead. It's a protected realm where one can say anything without being held accountable.

One cannot help but notice the similarities between Kevin Trudeau and our very own Barack Obama.

How is it fair that we put con-man Trudeau in prison behind bars, but we leave another habitual fraudster going back to his early adulthood, the con-man Obama, out as a free man? Here he persists in his deceptions even as I write!!! Read below and note the similarities!!! Enquiring minds want to know!!! TM

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March 18, 2014

CHICAGO – Best-selling author Kevin Trudeau, whose name became synonymous with late-night TV pitches, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for bilking consumers through ubiquitous infomercials for his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About."

As he imposed the sentence prosecutors had requested, U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman portrayed the 50-year-old Trudeau as a habitual fraudster going back to his early adulthood. So brazen was Trudeau, the judge said, he once even used his own mother's Social Security number in a scheme.

"Since his 20s, he has steadfastly attempted to cheat others for his own gain," Guzman said, adding that Trudeau is "deceitful to the very core."

Trudeau, whose trademark dyed black hair turned partially gray as he awaited sentencing in jail, showed little emotion as the stiff sentence was handed down at the hearing in Chicago.

Addressing the judge earlier in a 10-minute statement, Trudeau apologized and said he's become a changed man. He said he's meditated, prayed and read self-help books while locked up at Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Center.

"I have truly had a significant reawakening," said Trudeau, who was dressed in orange jail clothes. "If I ever do an infomercial again ... I promise: No embellishments, no puffery, no lies."

While Trudeau appeared calm throughout the hearing, one of his supporters interrupted the judge at one point and began to speak. After cutting the judge short a second time, the man dropped to the floor and refused to leave. U.S. marshals carried him out of the courtroom.

Jurors convicted Trudeau of criminal contempt in November for defying a 2004 court order barring him from running false ads about the weight-loss book. Despite the order, he aired the infomercials at least 32,000 times, according to prosecutors.

He sold more than 850,000 copies of the weight-loss book, generating $39 million in revenue, prosecutors say. And the judge agreed with prosecutors that the amount of loss stemming from Trudeau's deception was more than $37 million — nearly the amount in revenue.

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If only he was a Obama donor/bundler he could have started a fake green energy company

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and then someone has noticed another similarity....

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I remember that guy.



I knew he was peddling snake oil right off.

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And Rev, while he was feeling his sorrow and contemplating his wayward ways by hours of remorseful soul-searching of his situation....




Mr. Trudeau came up with an idea for his next best seller...

"Trudeau has treated federal court orders as if they were mere suggestions ... or impediments to be side-stepped, out-maneuvered or just ignored," the judge said.


Barack Obama has treated the Constitution as if it was an outdated, flawed document of mere suggestions ... impediments to be side-stepped, out maneuvered or just ignored," TM says

The deception, Judge Guzman explained, came in Trudeau's infomercials that misrepresented the contents of the book as laying out

"a simple, no hunger ... diet-free method of losing weight," which enticed more people to buy the book.

But Trudeau's weight-loss book describes a grueling, 500-calorie-a-day diet, as well as hormone treatments.

Barack Obama sold the American people a health plan idea that would keep their doctor and their plan PLUS save the average family $2,500 per year!!!

But under Obama's plan the people ended up losing their doctor and their new plan ended up costing double and sometimes triple their existing policies.

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Quote: Rev wrote in post #4

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I remember that guy.



I knew he was peddling snake oil right off.

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and this best seller!!!

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I had that book, but in a tragic flurry of irony, I lost it before I could read it.

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #14

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Zitat

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Addressing the judge earlier in a 10-minute statement, Trudeau apologized and said he's become a changed man. He said he's meditated, prayed and read self-help books while locked up at Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Center.

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I wonder if the self help books were his own?



Maybe now he will be able to remember not to rip dumb asses off.

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Maybe, but my point is that the CIC is doing the very same thing and skating. That's not right!