Whirled Musings
Across the Universe with Cosmic Connie, aka Connie L. Schmidt...or maybe just through the dung-filled streets and murky swamps of pop culture -- more specifically, the New-Age/New-Wage crowd, pop spirituality & religion, pop psychology, self(ish)-help, business babble, media silliness, & related (or occasionally unrelated) matters of consequence. Hope you're wearing boots. (By the way, the "Cosmic" bit in my moniker is IRONIC.)
Another Whirled blogaversary: The 7-year (b)itch
Can you believe it's been seven years since I
created this Whirled? I was originally inspired by Steve Salerno's SHAMblog, which I still read and enjoy, but this blog quickly took on an identity of its own. It started out as a lark but became a little more serious over the years.
Instead of reinventing the wheel with
another historic look back, I'll just link you to last year's blogaversary post. If you haven't read it, do so now, and I'll wait.
Things are mostly the same as they were last year, except there's no London Olympics this year, and in the
time since I wrote the six-year-blogaversary post, I have learned that I am a
former prostitute who is on drugs and is infected with AIDS, and who is being
paid by Big Pharma to write blog posts that nobody reads, in
order to discredit alt-health heroes. This is from last October (in later posts the little twerp spread the AIDS lie):
The things one learns about oneself when one reads the
senseless rants of lunatics!
Loony C wasn't the first to slam me, of course. Over the years I have been accused of being a hater, a whiner, a
jealous loser, and a naysayer who hates seeing other people
succeed. I've been called a bitch and some things much worse. I've received death threats.
I've been accused of being too skeptical and disbelieving, and not
skeptical enough. (Here's a lengthy post about that, with more links to other posts.)
But I've also received thanks and kudos for "telling it like
it is," for entertaining and even, on occasion, informing, and in some
cases for helping steer someone away from a financial or sexual predator.
I've enjoyed these seven years, and I appreciate everyone's
support throughout the years. And by the way, if you want to
lend a little monetary support to this effort, there's a
"Donation" button up there on the left. (I even wrote a poem about it a couple of years ago.) For various reasons, donations are more appreciated now than ever.
Donation or not, I'm very glad you're here. And keep those
comments coming.Labels: But enough about me
No cage for Katie (sorry, Lenny)
I very rarely post twice in one day, but just
wanted to share an update about Kevin Trudeau's civil court case. Despite predictions from certain daft ex-Trudeau buddies, KT is not going to
jail. Not yet, anyway. But the judge did find him in contempt (again), and he has to transfer all of his assets
to a receiver. Here's the link to the NBC5 Chicago story about today's decision.
On Facebook, judicial expert Loony Coldwell weighed in with his opinion that the criminal case with Judge Ronald Guzman will result in a 15-year jail sentence for Katie.
Coldwell also says once again (he just can't quit crowing about this) that the IRS is after Katie too. It's true that according to the FTC, at least $6
million in federal and state tax liens have been filed against
Trudeau. So it is reasonable to assume that the IRS -- and
numerous other agencies -- have had their eye on Katie for years. (But I wonder how many agencies have their eye on Coldwell. After all, he put
up a video a while back, with the title, "I would tell the IRS to go get
lost!", in which he said that the US income tax is illegal and people don't have to pay it, in his opinion. That video was posted on several sites but seems to be gone from most of them now, and in the one remaining link I found, the bit about telling the IRS to get lost seems to have been edited out. Lately, Loony and his buddy Peter Wink have been saying that you have to join their IBMS Master's Society seekrit society scam in order to get information about the IRS and related sovereignty issues that "they" don't want you to know about.)
Regarding the 15-year prison sentence, it is true that the government filed a document this past April regarding their recommended sentence if Kevin Trudeau is convicted in his criminal contempt case (number 1:10-cr-0086, with the Honorable Ronald A.
Guzman). Originally it was set to go to trial on June 3, but numerous delays occurred -- including a possibly short-lived bankruptcy case -- so the trial is currently scheduled for late August, subject to change as always.
Anyway, as I wrote in a May post, in that April document the government recommended a sentence of between 188-225
months in prison -- or between 15.66666666 and 18.75 years. They
used a specific formula for determining this recommendation. But there is no guarantee that this case will even be tried, much less that Trudeau will be convicted, much less that he will be sentenced to prison for nearly that long -- or at all.
And as I have said before, even I do not believe that a prison sentence, particularly a lengthy one like that, is really justice for a nonviolent criminal like Trudeau. For one thing, it doesn't scratch the surface of the money, time, energy, and emotional/mental well-being he has stolen from untold thousands of people (though I also realize that many of his fans and followers do not feel he has stolen anything from them). That $37.6 million civil case, and the related criminal case, are only about Trudeau's weight-loss book and only marginally related to his massive Ponzi-like scheme, the Global Information Network (GIN).
As I have also said before, it is too bad our justice system does not allow for a
forced life of humble servitude and subsistence living. THAT
would be the worst punishment of all for Trudeau, who is an
insufferable elitist. That would be mainly punitive and would not do much to compensate any alleged victims of Trudeau's scams, but it would be poetic justice.
Many of his fans would say that the fact Trudeau feels
compelled to live in exile is punishment enough. They have been
suitably indoctrinated by Katie, and believe the government is the real
culprit in the Kevin Trudeau saga. What a horrid punishment --
being forced to live in luxury digs in Zurich, one of the world's
most expensive cities. Now all he has to do is manage to get back there at some point, and I have a feeling that he will.
Meanwhile, the party is going on in Zurich -- the GIN summer conference, which lasts through tomorrow (July 28) -- even though the fearless leader cannot be there in person.
And who was it who said there will be no neat and tidy endings? Oh, yeah. The Cosmic Slut.
PS ~ Here is a link to the order issued by Judge Gettleman on July 26.
This order references a document filed on July 15, which may also interest you. That document, number 713, is important because it contains a handy summary
of the case since 2007, explaining how the contempt issue just
kept growing. And more importantly, it has a summary of the
tangled web of Kevin Trudeau's business entities -- information
that points to serious efforts at asset concealment. There is
also a summary of the way KT has blown through money over the
past few years -- money that the FTC claims could have been used
to pay down the $37.6 million fine. It's a good nutshell summary of the FTC's case against Katie. Here is that link.
More True-dough on this Whirled:
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau asks court to let him go to
Zurich, FTC sez no, judge sez no too
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: The FTC is really, really mad
now...sort of
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Gone fishing? Or something...
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Rumors, lies, and SNAG support
- June 2013: The Health Ranger: another phony hero in the
fight against Scamworld?
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau in court again: Something big...
something really big!... or maybe not
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau and justice: muddy waters
- May 2013: ABC has fun with Kevin Trudeau, and life goes on
- May 2013: ABC tackles Kevin Trudeau -- again!
- May 2013: Kevie goes a-courtin': pleading the Fifth
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Justice...or just more paper
shuffling?
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Countdown to court date (or not)
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau + Mark Hamilton = GIN with a twist
of Neo-stink
- April 2013: Bankruptcy: GIN members await Level 7 while
Kevin Trudeau files Chapter 7
- March 2013: Ryan Kath at KSHB-TV does Trudeau/GIN update,
Coldwell & Wink continue to scam with cheap imitation
of GIN
- February 2013: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: The sky is falling
(again)...yawn
- February 2013: Loony Coldwell: Cheesy video and bad spelling
- February 2013: IBMS Master's Society Supreme Loony Coldwell
strikes again
- February 2013: Faux heroes and hypocrisy in action
- February 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 2
- January 2013: Vital signs: "Immortal" (former)
breatharian Mony Vital dies on GIN cruise
- January 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 1
- December 2012: 2012 ~ The Whirled goes on
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: justice delayed...again
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau exposé on KSHB-TV: buzz,
backlash, and big beginnings
- November 2012: Alien nation: just how crazy is Kevin Trudeau
(not to mention his sheeple)?
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: KSHB-TV undercover investigation
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau gets some more mainstream lovin'
- October 2012: Evil has not won
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: Rats in our heads, GIN down the
toilet...and life goes on
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: The shape of things to come?
- September 2012: Leonard Coldwell and Fred Van Liew: Pot, meet
kettle
- August 2012: Truth is better than GIN any day
- July 2012: Drunk on GIN, and you can too!
- July 2012: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: part of the big sick
machine
- July 2012: Independence Daze
- May 2012 (updated September 2012): Paging Dr. C: Bernd bridges in Deutschland?
- May 2012: Can alien DNA save Kevin Trudeau's GIN?
- May 2012: Does a canary with a GIN hangover sing as
sweetly?
- April 2012: Viva Lost Wages: Sin City Become GIN City for a
weekend
- February 2012: A. Rose by any other name would shill as sweet
- December 2011: True-dough updates: Bad poetry for KT, hate mail
for CC
- November 2011: A jumpsuit for Jimmy
- August 2011: First Amendment Stuporhero
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by
any other name) -- Part 2 of 2
- August 2011: Calling all lazy men: let's build a pyramid
together!
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by
any other name), Part 1 of 2
- June 2011: Holy Guacamole! True-dough's racist rants
- June 2011: For he's a jolly good felon: True-dough speaks
out for Death Ray
- December 2009 (amended several times in
2010): Illuminutty: the secret brotherhood of the
chronically gullible
- November 2009: How to take over the world
- July 2009: Horse farts and related matters
- January 2009: Mr. Fire meets up with true dough
Labels: GIN, Global Information Network, Kevin Trudeau, Kevin Trudeau court case
Leonard Coldwell and Kevin Trudeau: love and marriage and pots and kettles
While we're waiting for the latest news on
today's court activities re serial scammer Kevin Trudeau (here is my previous post about same), I thought I would share some entertaining tidbits.
Kevin's former b.f.f./"personal physician in
Europe"/alt-health pitch man, Mocktor Loony Lenny Coldwell, is all
agog about some of the filed-under-seal court documents that
emerged on PACER.gov a few days ago, particularly a document that
indicates Kevin was married three times before he wed his currentlovely bride, Nataliya Babenko. (Kevin's brother Bob had told me
this some weeks previously, but I didn't share it because I
thought that it was a story better told in Bob's upcoming book
about his brother.)
The document that has Loony in a lather is from the many hundreds
of pages of exhibits, filed under seal, that the FTC used to try
to convince the court that Kevin should NOT be allowed to leave
the USA.
Anyway, Loony claims that Kevin used his Norwegian ex so he could
do bidness in Europe.
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You know the drill. Click on pic to enlarge. |
But it sort of looks as if Kevin isn't the only person who may have
married for reasons other than being head over heels in love.
Bernd Witchner, anyone? By the way, as you may recall, Bernd's new name recently celebrated its fifteenth
birthday as a legal name.
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Loony is also blathering on about other
misdeeds by True-dough, such as KT's use of Scientology and other
manipulative techniques -- conveniently overlooking the fact that
Loony himself has been accused of doing some of the same sorts of
things.
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The little twerp is working on a movie about his former b.f.f. |
A Facebook friend of mine noted, "It's
really funny that Lenny is condemning Kevin for using hypnosis
and NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) in Your Wish Is Your Command, since Lenny was doing the
exact same thing in his audios that he produced for GIN, like
'The Magic of GIN.'"
Indeed, that CD, which sells for $99, is still listed on Loony's Web site.
If you follow that link you will see that he has a couple of other GIN-related CDs, also selling for $99.00 each.

Loony has said that meditation and other mind
techniques can be harmful, but what he is really trying to
convince people of is that everything but his IBMS (Instinct Based Medicine System) shtick is
either harmful or ineffective or both. It is at best hypocritical for him to slam Katie for using hypnotic or coercive techniques. (And let's not even get into the suggestions that Loony used hypnosis and devious manipulation techniques on some of his alleged victims...)
The hypocrisy goes even further. As many may know, as far back as
the late 1990s in Germany, some people were concerned that Lenny
was using hypnotic/manipulative techniques. He apparently went so
far as to entrap a woman into suggesting he was using Scientology
like techniques, and then he sued her -- and lost. That's what
that German lawsuit that I went into in my Bernd bridges post last year was all about.
In other words, virtually everything he has been accusing Kevin
of, Coldwell has done or is doing himself. And for a couple of years he was getting paid quite handsomely by Kevin to carry on the very scams he now condemns. (He also likes to boast that he knew about a lot of the scammy aspects of GIN all along.)
Anyway. I'm sure the film world will be bowled over when
Loony comes out with his movie, A Life Of Crime the Trudeau
story. Maybe someone else is working on one called, A Life Of Slime: The Leonard Coldwell Story. I would suggest that someone give the information to American Greed, but
Bernd/Lenny isn't really an American, despite having tricked the
US into granting him citizenship a few years ago... and besides,
I think that a latter-day (and more responsible) version of To
Catch a Predator might be a better match to Loony's story.
Just sayin'.
Labels: GIN, Global Information Network, Kevin Trudeau, Kevin Trudeau court case, Leonard Coldwell
Remembering Colleen Conaway: victim of James Arthur Ray's recklessness
It seems like just a year ago today that I was commemorating the death of Colleen Conaway, faithful
follower of New-Wage guru, star of The Secret, and
convicted killer James Arthur Ray. Of course at the time Colleen
was following Ray, he wasn't yet a convicted killer. And he has
yet to answer for her death.
Colleen, as many of you may know, was attending a James Ray
"wealth" weekend in San Diego in July 2009, and ended
up jumping (or falling?) to her death from a third-story balcony
in a San Diego shopping mall. As noted in last year's blog post,
Colleen reportedly had no history of emotional or mental
problems, but apparently had a psychotic episode at the event.
The circumstances of her death were tragic and puzzling, but what
happened afterward was appalling. If you don't mind my quoting
myself:
After Ray found out about [Colleen's
death], he and his top minions apparently worked to cover it
up, shielding the rest of the attendees from the unfortunate
event, and they all partied on that night. If you don't know
Colleen's sad story, my pal
Yakaru has written a good summary of this tragedy, linking to several Salty Droid posts.
In early August of last year, Salty Droid
commemorated Colleen's death with a heartbreaking interview with
Colleen's sister Lynn. Here
is that link.
And so another year has gone by, and here we are at another sad
anniversary. Four years.
And in October, we'll be looking at the fourth anniversary of the
deaths of three other people -- Kirby Brown, James Shore (October 8), and Liz
Neuman (October 17) -- who also died as a result of Ray's recklessness
(although actually he was charged with -- and served an
outrageously short prison sentence for -- negligence, rather than
recklessness). He is now out of prison, serving out his probation
in Arizona, and no doubt preparing to re-enter Scamworld in a big
way.
It seems that prison did little to put a damper on his elitism. A
couple of months before his release, his brother was whining about the possibility that Jimmy
Ray Jumpsuit might have to stay in a halfway house with riff-raff. No word yet on exactly where JAR landed, but I'm sure
there are people digging around for that information.
And in related news, the summer 2013 meeting of the
Transformational Leadership Council (TLC) began yesterday, July 24, and lasts through the 28th.
There is no word on the TLC site about where this one is going to
be; they're usually pretty coy about that. This is relevant because Death Ray was a founding member of that
cartel, though rather unceremoniously dropped from the membership
roster after the sweat lodge debacle. I wonder if they'll let him
back in, now that he's out of the joint.
I do know that good people are pursuing justice for Colleen
Conaway's family, trying to get answers and doing everything they
can to see that James Ray is held accountable for her death.
And meanwhile, the big sick machine grinds on -- mostly taking
people's money, time, energy, hopes, and dreams, but sometimes
taking their lives as well.
Related and recent:
Labels: Colleen Conaway, James Arthur Ray, James Arthur Ray prison release, Law Of Attraction, The Secret
Kevin Trudeau asks court to let him go to Zurich, FTC sez no, judge sez no too
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Click on pic to enlarge, and there's also a link to the entire document in this post. |
[UPDATED to reflect court docs filed after this post was first published. ~CC]
Will serial scammer and huckster extraordinaire Kevin Trudeau show up in court this
Friday, July 26? Not if his lawyers have anything to say about
it. After all, he has high-level GIN disciples who are waiting to touch his hem in
Zurich later this week, and they have paid big bucks for the
privilege. The wheels of commerce should trump the wheels of
justice, say the lawyers.
I guess it pays to visit PACER just about every day. I
visited on July 18 (five days ago) and wrote about and shared
some of the documents that were filed on July 15. Apparently more
documents were filed and made available later in the day on July
18, and then even more were filed in both the civil and criminal
case on July 22 and July 23 (today). Kevin's lawyers have been
begging for a continuance of the July 26 hearings, and have
also been begging for him to get his passport back to enable him
to travel to the GIN summer conference in Zurich, which is scheduled
to begin in a few days. (According to the documents, he did
return to the US on July 10, and handed his passports back as
ordered.)
His attorneys asked for a continuance of the scheduled
July 26 hearings until July 30, or as soon as possible
thereafter. They wanted him to be allowed to go to Zurich for the
big GIN summer scamfest on July 26-28, and to have time to come
back to the US and recover from jet lag and whatnot... maybe have
a spa day, get a pedicure, kick back and relax with a fine cigar.
Alternatively, they wanted the court to waive the requirement that
Katie has to show up at all. He's been there for all of the
evidentiary hearings, said the lawyers. He doesn't really need to
be there for the oral arguments, does he?
I uploaded a PDF of one of the documents from the criminal
case (Number 1:10-cr-00886, Hon. Ronald A. Guzman presiding). The
same requests were filed in the civil case as well. The uploaded document
includes a proposed motion for Judge Guzman to sign, allowing KT
to travel.
Here's the link.
Not surprisingly, the FTC has filed pages and pages and pages of
documents explaining why Kevin should NOT be allowed to travel
again.
Here is one of them, filed under the civil case
(Number 1:03-cv-03904, Hon. Robert W. Gettleman
presiding).
Not to be outdone, Kevin's attorneys filed a
response, explaining again why the FTC is being grossly unfair to
Kevin Trudeau, claiming, among many other things, that to
incarcerate him over the civil case would be the equivalent of
debtors' prison and therefore illegal.
Here is a link to that document.
See Footnote number 6 in the above, which again mentions that mysterious
Nevis corporation, GIN FDN. Some think that this is where the
real money is hidden, out of reach of the Feds (click to enlarge).

As was the case with the July 15 documents, there are also
hundreds of pages of exhibits, some of which were filed under
seal so I won't share them. But the document I linked to in the paragraph above should give an
idea of the FTC's position. They were in court this
morning (July 23) presenting their case as to why KT shouldn't be
allowed to go to Zurich and should be thrown in jail immediately.
Now, I'm still not saying that Kevin Trudeau belongs in jail, although that
would certainly give him an opportunity to polish his martyr
image and get started on that epic book he's been threatening to write about his
heroic struggles. But I do think that
the courts have been far too lenient on him, and one thing that the FTC was concerned about was that if he were allowed to go to Zurich, he just might not come back.
Well, at least his sweet old parents, who had put their home up to secure his bond so he could
travel to Canada, presumably get to
stay in that home.
UPDATE:
The request for a continuance has been denied, and apparently Katie
isn't going to be allowed to go to Zurich, unless his attorneys can do
some more fancy paper shuffling. Latest docket entries (click to enlarge)...
Civil case...

Criminal case...
Addendum, 24 July: Two more days remain till the court hearings, in which both judges are expected to make rulings -- although of course this could change. You can bet your bottom dollar that Katie's lawyers are still working overtime to delay the procedures in any way possible.
The GIN scamfest in Zurich is also only two days away, and some of Katie's detractors are crowing that the event will surely be cancelled now that Katie won't be there, and that GIN will be forced to refund thousands upon thousands of dollars to the people who have paid to attend the event, and that GIN will finally and totally collapse.
I've been indulging in some more Facebook conversations on forums that include GIN/KT supporters as well as detractors. As you may know, Trudeau's supporters, and even some of his detractors (including his brother Bob), think that the Feds' case against Trudeau is bogus. They say it's just one more example of government tyranny.
However one feels about Kevin Trudeau, there is no doubt
that he still has lots of supporters, whether they are GIN
members or not. And yes, the US government has done some
appalling things over the past couple of decades (well, for the
past couple of centuries, but who's counting?), so we can be reasonably certain that KT and his loyal supporters will continue to conflate
government crimes and misdemeanors in other areas with Kevin's
own troubles. And many people will continue to accept that conflation.
After all, as I have said numerous times before, many people are pissed off at the
government for something or other (justifiably so, in many
cases), and are therefore easily convinced by Kevin's shtick that
he is fighting for the rest of us as well as for himself. He has been using this shtick for years.
To claim, as he and his supporters continue to claim, that the
whole ten-year-plus FTC case is about Katie expressing a simple
opinion in a book, is, in my opinion, a ludicrous oversimplification and
misrepresentation of the case. But people continue to believe it
and to repeat that story.
But make no mistake: Kevin will use every avenue available to him
to capitalize on the situation, no matter what happens to him. I
still do not think he will be incarcerated -- at least not
for any length of time (although there is always the possibility
that one or both of the judges may have become so disgusted and
impatient by now that they may surprise me).
And as I have also been saying for some time now, I do not necessarily
think Katie belongs behind bars. But if he does get locked up, he will continue to gather support
-- financial and moral -- and to run scams any way he can. Alternatively, if goes to jail for the civil case, he
may miraculously come up with the money for the fine, or most of it, and they
will most likely let him go. Whether or not he pays the fine or a portion thereof, he will be
able to use it as a symbol of government oppression and
repression for years to come, so either way he wins, in a sense.
There is still, of course, the criminal contempt case, which may or
may not go to trial. It certainly seems to be progressing in that
direction, but there is still a possibility that it could be settled or dropped. That may depend
upon how determined a few FTC lawyers and investigators are.
If anything comes of other agencies' investigations of KT (as
reported from various sources but not completely confirmed), those will be
whole separate cases -- more time and money spent.
As for the Zurich event, there is always the
possibility that Katie and his GINions can arrange a
videoconferencing setup so he can address the attendees live from Chicago, provided the courts allow that. (And if they don't, his attorneys can use that as further proof that the authorities are tying Kevin's hands so the poor boy can't earn more money towards the fine he owes.) Naturally, if he gets to address the troops in Zurich, whether live or via some remote technology, he can rally them with his martyr act.
If he is unable to do that, then Lee Kenny and Chris McGarahan
can exploit it to the max. "Now more than ever we have to
show our strength and solidarity with Kevin! We are GIN! We are
GIN!"
Or there may be some last minute paper shuffling that allows Katie
to go to Zurich after all. There is also the possibility that on
Friday the judge(s) could simply decide not to incarcerate him.
Who knows, they might even give him his passport back and let him
go to Zurich, at least for the closing ceremonies, as long as he
promises to be back for his criminal trial, assuming that it goes on as scheduled.
As I said, either way Kevin and the top minions will
be able to capitalize on it. In light of the numerous exploitation opportunities, it would be foolish of GIN to cancel the Zurich event.
And if GIN really does collapse as a direct or indirect result of
the court actions, I predict two things:
1. Abe Husein will take the lion's share of credit for it, and will declare victory, and will be on more videos where he humbly talks about what a service he has provided to humanity by taking down Kevin Trudeau.
2. It will probably be no big deal to Kevin Trudeau. He
will find something else to do. He always does. In other words: No neat and tidy
endings. And no big loss to Scamworld, which feeds upon the hopes and dreams and longings, as well as the fears and insecurities, of millions of people who are on a perpetual hunt for The Next Big Thing.
More True-dough on this Whirled:
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: The FTC is really, really mad
now...sort of
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Gone fishing? Or something...
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Rumors, lies, and SNAG support
- June 2013: The Health Ranger: another phony hero in the
fight against Scamworld?
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau in court again: Something big...
something really big!... or maybe not
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau and justice: muddy waters
- May 2013: ABC has fun with Kevin Trudeau, and life goes on
- May 2013: ABC tackles Kevin Trudeau -- again!
- May 2013: Kevie goes a-courtin': pleading the Fifth
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Justice...or just more paper
shuffling?
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Countdown to court date (or not)
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau + Mark Hamilton = GIN with a twist
of Neo-stink
- April 2013: Bankruptcy: GIN members await Level 7 while
Kevin Trudeau files Chapter 7
- March 2013: Ryan Kath at KSHB-TV does Trudeau/GIN update,
Coldwell & Wink continue to scam with cheap imitation
of GIN
- February 2013: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: The sky is falling
(again)...yawn
- February 2013: Loony Coldwell: Cheesy video and bad spelling
- February 2013: IBMS Master's Society Supreme Loony Coldwell
strikes again
- February 2013: Faux heroes and hypocrisy in action
- February 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 2
- January 2013: Vital signs: "Immortal" (former)
breatharian Mony Vital dies on GIN cruise
- January 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 1
- December 2012: 2012 ~ The Whirled goes on
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: justice delayed...again
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau exposé on KSHB-TV: buzz,
backlash, and big beginnings
- November 2012: Alien nation: just how crazy is Kevin Trudeau
(not to mention his sheeple)?
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: KSHB-TV undercover investigation
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau gets some more mainstream lovin'
- October 2012: Evil has not won
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: Rats in our heads, GIN down the
toilet...and life goes on
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: The shape of things to come?
- September 2012: Leonard Coldwell and Fred Van Liew: Pot, meet
kettle
- August 2012: Truth is better than GIN any day
- July 2012: Drunk on GIN, and you can too!
- July 2012: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: part of the big sick
machine
- July 2012: Independence Daze
- May 2012 (updated September 2012): Paging Dr. C: Bernd bridges in Deutschland?
- May 2012: Can alien DNA save Kevin Trudeau's GIN?
- May 2012: Does a canary with a GIN hangover sing as
sweetly?
- April 2012: Viva Lost Wages: Sin City Become GIN City for a
weekend
- February 2012: A. Rose by any other name would shill as sweet
- December 2011: True-dough updates: Bad poetry for KT, hate mail
for CC
- November 2011: A jumpsuit for Jimmy
- August 2011: First Amendment Stuporhero
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by
any other name) -- Part 2 of 2
- August 2011: Calling all lazy men: let's build a pyramid
together!
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by
any other name), Part 1 of 2
- June 2011: Holy Guacamole! True-dough's racist rants
- June 2011: For he's a jolly good felon: True-dough speaks
out for Death Ray
- December 2009 (amended several times in
2010): Illuminutty: the secret brotherhood of the
chronically gullible
- November 2009: How to take over the world
- July 2009: Horse farts and related matters
- January 2009: Mr. Fire meets up with true dough
Labels: GIN, Global Information Network, Kevin Trudeau, Kevin Trudeau court case
Kevin Trudeau: The FTC is really, really mad now...sort of...well, maybe not really
This coming week, on Friday, July 26 at 2:00
PM, serial scammer Kevin Trudeau is due back in court to continue
hearings on the Federal Trade Commission's case(s) against him. I
haven't been able to find out yet if he has returned from his
mission in Canada -- a mission for which his aged parents put up their
60-year-old home in order to secure a bond for his release -- but I was able to find another ream of court documents, filed this past week, on
PACER.gov. [UPDATE, 23 July: Apparently he did return on July 10 and handed in his passports. ~CC]
On July 15, several documents were filed regarding the civil case
(1:03-cv-03904, before Hon. Robert W. Gettleman), including
hundreds and hundreds of pages of exhibits. (I shared them on a couple of Facebook forums the other day, but feel they belong on this Whirled too.) I still haven't been
able to plow through all of the pages, but one that I though
y'all might find interesting is titled, "Plaintiff's Post-Hearing
Brief in Support of Motion to Hold Defendant Trudeau in Contempt
for Violating the June 2, 2010 Order, Incarcerate Him, and Order
Him to Provide An Accounting of and Turnover Assets."
Whew!
Essentially, this is the FTC's reiteration of all the reasons
that KT has utterly failed to prove that he is unable to pay the
$37.6 million fine the FTC says he owes. They are farting in the
general direction of all of those thousands of pages of documents
his legal team has been throwing their way, and are still
claiming that incarcerating Katie is the only way to get him to
cough up the dough. Or might be, unless the court decides otherwise. Or, as the document concludes in Part V,
"Relief":
Trudeau is a triple contemnor who will
not comply with the Court’s order that he compensate his
victims unless the Court forces him. Accordingly, the FTC
asks the Court to incarcerate Trudeau immediately until one
of three conditions is satisfied: (1) Trudeau fully complies
with the Court’s Order To Pay; (2) the Court finds that
continued incarceration no longer serves a coercive purpose;
or (3) Trudeau completes a full accounting and turns over all
assets that he controls. With respect to the accounting, the
FTC further asks that the Court order the FTC to nominate an
appropriately qualified independent accounting firm, that
Trudeau pay to engage that firm, and that Trudeau, as well as
all the companies he controls, cooperate fully with the firm
(including any requests for information it makes).
I've uploaded that document to Filesend, and you can download it by clicking here (filename: Trudeau-civil-case-Document-716-07-15-13.pdf
(124.45 kB))
But just in case you really think
that this is it for Katie, and that the FTC is really,
really putting its foot down this time, take a look at this document filed on
October 15, 2012, nine months previous to the one cited above. It says a lot of the same things that
the July 15, 2013 document says. (Link courtesy Salty Droid, in
his still-highly-relevant November 2012 post, "Caging Kevin Trudeau.")
And if you really have a lot of time to waste and are truly
interested in this case, there's a 366-page document, filed as an
attachment to the July 15, 2013 doc above, that includes the transcripts of his
May 21, June 26, and June 27 hearings. You may recall the May 21
hearing was the one where he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights
nearly 400 times. (Let's just say the FTC was not
impressed.)
I uploaded that long document too, and you can download it here
(filename:
Trudeau-civil-case-Document-716-1-attachment-07-15-13.pdf (1.46
MB))
Meanwhile in the criminal case (1:10-cr-00886,
before Hon. Ronald Guzman), an order was filed on July 16. It was
short and simple:
The parties have previously been
ordered to submit all pretrial motions by August 13, 2013
(Dkt # 57). That order is now expanded to include proposed
jury instructions. The parties are ordered to submit on or
before August 13, 2013 a full set of proposed jury
instructions with citations to supporting law and arguments
for any proposed non-pattern instructions. The parties should
come prepared to discuss jury instructions at the August 20,
2013 pretrial conference.
So apparently they're still planning to go ahead with
the criminal contempt trial.
But I'm still thinking that True-dough will not end up in jail,
as much as the very daft Mocktor Lenny Coldwell might like to
see him there, and has been predicting KT's
imminent incarceration at least since last October.
Not surprisingly, Loony is all hot and bothered
over the July 15 doc, (forgetting how similar
it is to the one filed last October 15),
though apparently in order to keep it seekrit from
"hater" bloggers, he is posting exclusively on
Abe Husein's Facebook page -- from which most of the
"hatters" and "loosers" are blocked -- rather than
on his own blog, which is publicly viewable.
And so the story goes, on and on and on and on...
More True-dough on this Whirled:
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Gone fishing? Or something...
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Rumors, lies, and SNAG support
- June 2013: The Health Ranger: another phony hero in the
fight against Scamworld?
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau in court again: Something big...
something really big!... or maybe not
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau and justice: muddy waters
- May 2013: ABC has fun with Kevin Trudeau, and life goes on
- May 2013: ABC tackles Kevin Trudeau -- again!
- May 2013: Kevie goes a-courtin': pleading the Fifth
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Justice...or just more paper
shuffling?
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Countdown to court date (or not)
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau + Mark Hamilton = GIN with a twist
of Neo-stink
- April 2013: Bankruptcy: GIN members await Level 7 while
Kevin Trudeau files Chapter 7
- March 2013: Ryan Kath at KSHB-TV does Trudeau/GIN update,
Coldwell & Wink continue to scam with cheap imitation
of GIN
- February 2013: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: The sky is falling
(again)...yawn
- February 2013: Loony Coldwell: Cheesy video and bad spelling
- February 2013: IBMS Master's Society Supreme Loony Coldwell
strikes again
- February 2013: Faux heroes and hypocrisy in action
- February 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 2
- January 2013: Vital signs: "Immortal" (former)
breatharian Mony Vital dies on GIN cruise
- January 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 1
- December 2012: 2012 ~ The Whirled goes on
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: justice delayed...again
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau exposé on KSHB-TV: buzz,
backlash, and big beginnings
- November 2012: Alien nation: just how crazy is Kevin Trudeau
(not to mention his sheeple)?
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: KSHB-TV undercover investigation
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau gets some more mainstream lovin'
- October 2012: Evil has not won
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: Rats in our heads, GIN down the
toilet...and life goes on
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: The shape of things to come?
- September 2012: Leonard Coldwell and Fred Van Liew: Pot, meet
kettle
- August 2012: Truth is better than GIN any day
- July 2012: Drunk on GIN, and you can too!
- July 2012: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: part of the big sick
machine
- July 2012: Independence Daze
- May 2012 (updated September 2012): Paging Dr. C: Bernd bridges in Deutschland?
- May 2012: Can alien DNA save Kevin Trudeau's GIN?
- May 2012: Does a canary with a GIN hangover sing as
sweetly?
- April 2012: Viva Lost Wages: Sin City Become GIN City for a
weekend
- February 2012: A. Rose by any other name would shill as sweet
- December 2011: True-dough updates: Bad poetry for KT, hate mail
for CC
- November 2011: A jumpsuit for Jimmy
- August 2011: First Amendment Stuporhero
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by
any other name) -- Part 2 of 2
- August 2011: Calling all lazy men: let's build a pyramid
together!
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by
any other name), Part 1 of 2
- June 2011: Holy Guacamole! True-dough's racist rants
- June 2011: For he's a jolly good felon: True-dough speaks
out for Death Ray
- December 2009 (amended several times in
2010): Illuminutty: the secret brotherhood of the
chronically gullible
- November 2009: How to take over the world
- July 2009: Horse farts and related matters
- January 2009: Mr. Fire meets up with true dough
Labels: GIN, Global Information Network, Kevin Trudeau