Kevin Trudeau's Secrets; Remington Steal

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When the FTC fines Infomercial kingpin Kevin Trudeau $37.6 million for all of his get-rich-quick schemes, Trudeau hatches his most shameless scheme by claiming he's flat broke; Remington Financial Group's nightmare "advance fee" scam has cost small business owners their dreams and millions of dollars. (Original television broadcast: 7-10-2015) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

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0:00.0	This is the American Greed podcast presented by CNBC.
0:04.1	I'm Stacey Keach.
0:09.6	In this episode of American Greed, I lost 45 pounds in six weeks.
0:15.8	The money is given to you by the government.
0:17.5	You never have to pay a fact.
0:18.8	There are natural cures for virtually every
0:22.7	disease out there. Fat, bald, broke, Kevin Trudeau will make you rich, thin, beautiful. This book
0:29.5	is a $29 value. I'm going to throw this one in, absolutely free. Trudeau sells cures for whatever
0:36.3	ails you, and he takes in hundreds of millions of dollars.
0:39.3	But when the U.S. government accuses Kevin Trudeau of selling lies...
0:43.3	He's a serial scammer and that one scam tends to lead to the next.
0:48.3	He dares the feds to shut him down.
0:51.3	You want to put me in jail? Let's go to court, baby.
0:53.3	And later, you need money?
0:56.0	Remington Financial Groups Andrew McDonough can set anyone up with a loan for a price.
1:02.0	Whether you need a million, $3 million, $99 million, it didn't matter.
1:06.0	It's making him millions, but most clients get nothing.
1:10.0	There was no way that once you got ensnared in the Remington that you were going to get out.
1:20.6	If you're watching right now, this is the book.
1:23.6	This is not a diet. This is a cure.
1:25.6	There are, in fact, natural, non-drug is not a diet. This is a cure. There are in fact natural,
1:28.7	non-drug and non-surgical ways to preventing cure virtually every disease. Kevin Trudeau,
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