After decades of litigation over his claims of miracle schemes to lose weight or gain wealth— and more than eight years in federal prison — TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau still has fans willing to give him millions of dollars.
The Kevin Trudeau Fan Club, founded by devoted followers to route money onto Trudeau’s commissary account while he was serving a federal prison sentence for making fraudulent claims in infomercials, has raised approximately $3 million, according to testimony this week at hearings aimed at learning whether Trudeau is hiding still more millions he could be using to pay off a $37 million fine levied by the Federal Trade Commission more than a decade ago.
Trudeau "has, probably millions, hundreds of thousands of fans around the world who love his teachings," Canada said.Of the $3 million raised, only a little more than $1 million has gone to pay the FTC, commission lawyer Jonathan Cohen noted, while Trudeau has directed Canada to make $7,500 payments to "volunteers" who help maintain his website and also to a woman Cohen identified as Trudeau’s girlfriend.
On Tuesday, a forensic investigator hired by Trudeau detailed an investigation that cost more than $200,000 to Trudeau’s bank accounts and corporations. FTC lawyer Cohen questioned whether that investigation, which targeted Trudeau’s known accounts and a search of Trudeau’s properties, was sufficient to determine whether Trudeau was hiding assets in other accounts or shell companies.
At the close of the hearing Wednesday, Judge Robert Gettleman appearing weary after nearly two decades of litigation in Trudeau’s case, snapped at Trudeau’s lawyer, Giel Stein, when Stein complained the FTC was drawing out the process.
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