Kevin Trudeau: The Infomercial King

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back to cover a fraudster for the ages: Kevin Trudeau and his seemingly unending list of schemes and scams. They go over Trudeau’s journey from beginning to end, including his participation in MLMs, dubious self-help books, and so called miraculous health products, all the while being actively pursed by the FTC for his numerous crimes and infractions. Then, they play a game of “As Seen on NATCP!” where they try to name infamous infomercial products from years gone by. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Known to many as the infomercial king, Kevin Trudeau got his start in the world of shady business when he was only 15
0:06.4	when he attended a meeting for the infamous MLM Amway.
0:10.0	From there, he became involved in a series of dubious health products that promised to solve all sorts of health issues
0:16.2	for baldness to obesity and even cancer.
0:19.0	But behind these allegedly miraculous products, there was a slew of misinformation,
0:23.5	hot truths, and outright lies.
0:26.0	The FTC started looking closely at these infractions, and issued penalties and finds to Trudeau on multiple occasions,
0:32.6	but somehow he kept operating in his scamming ways without many repercussions.
0:38.0	Will the infomercial king face proper justice?
0:43.0	Betches media presents.
0:46.0	Not another true crime podcast.
0:49.0	It's all fun and games.
0:51.0	Until someone gets hurt.
0:57.0	Hey guys, welcome back to another true crime podcast.
1:00.0	I'm Sarah Levine.
1:02.0	And I'm Danny Murphy, and you know us as your partners in wine, crime, and time,
1:05.0	because we'll be in your ears talking about a crazy story.
1:08.0	We're both angry. I feel like we have to say that.
1:10.0	Oh, I just like scarfed down half an eggplant-parm wrap, so I'm a lot better.
1:15.0	Oh, that I'm jealous.
1:16.0	I'm actually super excited about this one because I just was like googling American scammers,
1:22.0	and this guy came up, and I was like, what's his deal?
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