TV infomercial star Kevin Trudeau sentenced to 10 years in criminal contempt

[cali]

TV infomercial star-turned-convicted swindler Kevin Trudeau has been sentenced to 10 years after prosecutors accused him of cheating people out of millions in a fraudulent weight-loss book.

Trudeau, whose sentence follows his defiance of paying a $37 million fine, was slammed as "deceitful to the core" by U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman in Chicago Monday.

The 50-year-old still gave one last pitch before the judge, saying that his four months behind bars for the November conviction had already changed him for the better.

The judge reacted with no sympathy, however, but instead publicly shamed him as cheating people since he was 25 years old.

The deceit echoed prosecutors' own claims. Trudeau was described by them as preying on the sick, poor and insecure when he released his 2009 book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About," which made $49 million in sales.

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[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Good thing he wasn't a bankster

they would have really let him have it.

[jsr]

3. Yep, dumbass should have gotten a job on Wall Street.

[PowerToThePeople]

2. His sales pitch was good

I remember hearing about this book. I probably got hooked enough to google it, though I did not end up buying it. I consider myself to be a really hard sell, marketing rarely works on me.

[Romulox]

4. Every day, indelibly etched into his perfect memory!