The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Jurors in Chicago found author and infomercial host Kevin Trudeau guilty of criminal contempt Tuesday for making false ...
CHICAGO (AP) - TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for bilking consumers via infomercials for his best-selling weight loss book. In sentencing the 50-year-old Trudeau in ...
CHICAGO — TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau was warned years ago by a federal judge that a 10-year prison sentence for contempt wasn’t going to magically erase the whopping $37.6 million civil penalty he ...