By Steve Rhodes
“The Federal Trade Commission plans to start refunding customers duped into buying fraudster Kevin Trudeau’s diet book ‘as soon as possible’ after a judge gave final approval to the plan, its lawyer said,” the Sun-Times Media Wire (whatever that is) reports.
“Calling it the ‘fairest way we can do this,’ U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman gave his blessing [last] Wednesday to the FTC’s proposal to use $8 million of Trudeau’s fortune to begin compensating people who were conned through false infomercials into buying the TV pitchman’s book.
“The book Trudeau promoted as ‘an easy weight-loss program’ actually offered a 500 calorie-a-day diet, off-label injections of a fertility drug, frequent colonics and ‘extraordinary, lifelong’ diet restrictions, according to the FTC.”
Here’s my favorite part:
Gettleman also shot down a counterproposal by Trudeau to send refunds only to people who have asked for one.
LOL.
“The FTC’s proposed distribution will give a windfall to certain customers who will receive a check even though they were perfectly happy with Trudeau’s book and do not want a refund,” Kimball Anderson, an attorney for Trudeau, argued in a court filing last month.
LMAO. Windfall.
(Kimball Anderson, by the way, is a partner at Winston & Strawn and the firm is proud of his work on behalf of Trudeau.)
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Click through for the rest of this priceless saga.
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Previously:
* Infomercial Review: More Natural Cures Revealed By Kevin Trudeau.
* What I Watched Last Night: Infomercial Armageddon.
* Local TV Notes: Kevin Trudeau Could’ve Been President.
* Kevin Trudeau’s Jailhouse Jig.
* Estate Sale At Kevin Trudeau’s Mansion.
* The Infomercial King Was Good. Real Good.
* And . . .
Infomercial King Kevin Trudeau Returns To Lifelong Project: What Wardens Don’t Want You To Know. http://t.co/0Zy4FdgYIR
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 23, 2013
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Plus: Kevin Trudeau: I Went to Prison for Secret Society Mission Undercover.
The Global Information Network, by the way, still exists – apparently based out of Tinley Park, or maybe Wheaton.
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Bonus Trudeau:
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Comments welcome.
Posted on October 14, 2015