Poker Deposit BonusKevin Trudeau in Legal Trouble…Again
November 28th, 2007 Paul Lucas
The Ridiculous Infomercial Review is a humor website. Despite what some people may assume, we are not on any kind of crusade to expose infomercial scams.
Nonetheless, I didn’t want to let this piece of news go by without comment. Kevin Trudeau has been on more TV infomercials for about as long as anyone I can think of. He was a prominent pitchman during the infomercial “golden age” of the late 80s/early 90s and his ads are still airing today.
On November 16, Kevin Trudeau was held in contempt of court. This was because he was found to have violated an earlier court injunction from 2004. That “permanent injunction” banned Trudeau from selling products via infomercial. However, it contained an exception for promoting books, as long as Trudeau did not misrepresent the content of the books. The U.S. District Court judge ruled that Trudeau misrepresented his book The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About by claiming the diet was “easy.”
No punishment has yet been determined for Kevin Trudeau. Perhaps this is finally the end of Mr. Trudeau’s reign as a fixture on TV infomercials.
Otherwise, Kevin Trudeau will use this ruling to his advantage, claiming that “They”—the Government, Big Pharma, the Diet Industry, the AMA—are trying to suppress him from speaking out about natural health and diet cures. Paranoia has been Trudeau’s most prominent marketing tactic lately.
For more info, check out this post from the Consumerist detailing just how “easy” Kevin Trudeau’s weight loss cure really is.
he has had more escapes than houdini
Comment by dan — November 28th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I don’t get it - no matter how paranoid you are, why would a ban help sell health products?
“The Official Governmental Labs called this product ‘one of the most humorous ways to die’. Nonsense! It’s perfectly safe! Order now, before the first poisoning charges roll in and it gets banned for good!”
I mean, very inspiring =)
Comment by WWWWolf — December 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Your sarcasm, tone and disrespect for the Juiceman and his age plus Kevin Trudeau shows me you are paid by someone to be a poison pen and are a joker and degrader. At least the Juiceman and Kevin Trudeau make money by selling a product. You are just selling a poison pen and it is much saner and more ethical than how you are making yours. You website could be valuable if you cleanly stated your facts, but that’s not what you are getting paid for is it? Get a life.
Comment by Sharon Turnbull — December 20th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
You’re selling poison pens? where can i get one? I don’t see a link anywhere… it’s ‘them’ isn’t it? “they” don’t want you peddling your poison pens and they’re trying to suppress your right as an american to shill useless and possibly harmful products, aren’t they? damn them…
Comment by sold on it — April 30th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Is there any way to get my money back for “The Weight Loss Cure”? It claimed to have so much helpful information. I felt like I had to do so much more and spend more money to lose weight! It’s a sham!
Comment by Loraine — June 1st, 2008 at 6:53 am
I’ve lost over 100lbs on the diet Kevin Trudeau speaks about in his book. However, it took along time to find a doctor I could find to work with-yes it absolutely requires you to be under a licensed physician. The scam with his book is that it does not tell you the doctors you can contact-you have to sign up for his news letter @ $9.95 per month and I still could not find the doctors. I found my doctor completely on my own. And just try to get off that automatic debt from your account–the only thing my bank could do was cancel my account and issue me a new one!
Comment by Saundra Zamora — July 14th, 2008 at 7:31 am