Serial scammer Kevin Trudeau: fighting to stay out of prison with yet another scam

 

Serial scammer Kevin Trudeau (aka KT, aka Katie on this Whirled), whom we most recently visited on this November 2022 post (updated in early December), is still fighting to keep from being thrown back into prison. Earlier this month, according to Chuck Goudie and the gang of investigators at Chicago's ABC7 News, Trudeau promised the court that he really, really will pay the remainder of the fine he still owes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for his repeated violation of consent orders in which he'd promised to stop lying to consumers about the contents of his wacko diet book, The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You To Know About. (That was for the civil contempt part of the case; he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for criminal contempt charges related to the same book.) More specifically, he says that he'll pay the fine as soon as the government will tell him exactly how much he owes, which is the same thing he's been saying for at least the past several weeks, if not years.

But if you believe that promise, then you probably also believed that #NeverWasMyPresident Donald John Trump really, really was going to release his income tax returns just as soon as the IRS finished their (nonexistent) comprehensive audit. In fact, if you still believe anything that comes out of the putrid pie hole of either Trump or Trudeau -- two turds of a feather -- you're setting yourself up for a yuuge disappointment when (if) you eventually emerge from your daze. Please get some professional help. I can only do so much on this blog.

In a recent federal court filing, Trudeau asked for more time to obtain the answer to the burning question of how much he still owes the government. (In fairness, he did reportedly try to find this out back in early 2020, when he was still confined at Federal sleepaway camp, but I was never able to learn whether or not his efforts were successful.) And while U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman, who has been presiding over Trudeau's civil case for many years, could have thrown him back in the clink following his last court hearing, the judge chose to let Trudeau stay free-ish for now. I say free-ish because, darn it, Katie still isn't allowed to travel the world to help humanity the way he's longing to do; instead, he has to stay in the Chicago area on a pretty short leash, legally speaking. Oh, why do such bad things happen to such good people?

A foundational principle of Trudeau's decades-old scampire is his claim that the U.S. government is pure evil and that he is a long-suffering hero/martyr who is being punished merely for telling the truth about that evil. One of his current claims in this vein is that the government actually owes him money, according to the ABC7 report cited above (and here's that link again):

Trudeau actually thinks the government may owe him money, even though the FTC has just filed a 347 page report in court with a very detailed breakout and balance sheet. Trudeau gave his take during questioning in a deposition by government attorneys last Friday. At one point, he told government agents there's a possibility they owe him 400-thousand dollars in expense money.

Sure, Kev. Whatever you say.

I still don't have links to share to any of the relevant court documents regarding the most recent activities, but when/if I do obtain those links, I'll share them here. In any case, it appears that not knowing exactly how much he owes the government isn't the only obstacle standing in the way of Trudeau paying his fine. He claims that he still needs to actually raise the money to do so, and towards that end, he is poised to make his
BIGGEST Announcement...Ever!

Katie made the first big announcement of this Big Announcement via his December 21, 2022 Telegram message on The Official Kevin Trudeau Fan Club Channel. He claimed that he actually hadn't planned to make this Big Announcement until many, many years in the future, if at all, his original idea being to make the information accessible only to the very highest ranking members of his mega-scam GIN (the Global Information Network).

The reason for the exclusivity, he splained, is that the information is just too powerful, and potentially too dangerous, to be released to the general public. So incredibly powerful is the info, Kevin claimed, that even though it was known to Think and Grow Rich author Napoleon Hill -- an old-school scammer who's still worshiped and mythologized by scammers in the modern era -- Hill never released it to the public. According to Kevin, Hill testified about these principles at a Chamber of Commerce meeting way back when, and although Hill's testimony was supposedly recorded, it was never transferred to audiocassette because the audio was of such horrendous quality.

Which means, apparently, that we will all have to take lying liar Kevin Trudeau's word that the audio even exists.

The explosive information in question is something that Katie calls the Money Processes, of which there are thirty. In his Telegram message, Trudeau claimed that the Processes were part of the "training" that he went through back in the early 1970s and the 1980s. Now, since he was born in 1963, he would have been, at most, 11 years old in the early 1970s. Then again, he has often bragged about what a prodigy he was. I guess you'll just have to take that on faith too.

At any rate, the bottom line is that these Money Processes are much too mighty for the average schlub. Nevertheless, Kevin is now going to make them available to every one of those schlubs, including you and me, simply because the FTC wants the money that they claim Kevin owes them, and if he doesn't pony up, he'll be thrown back into the clink. So really, he has no choice.

Trudeau also claimed in his Telegram message that numerous elite, mega-successful business tycoons around the world have offered him millions and millions and millions of dollars to form an exclusive company with them, meaning that he could have easily earned the money to pay the fine that way. But, goodness, if he signed an exclusive deal with any of them, he would be restricted from doing all of his books and trainings and one-on-one consulting and Zoom calls and frauduct peddling and stuff like that, so he just cannot do it, because he wants to stay true to his mission of helping the world by teaching all of us schlubs how to achieve the life of our dreams.

And because he now needs to raise a bunch of money quick, we're in luck. If you tune into his Zoom call at 1:00 EST on December 31, 2022, you will get to listen to his Big Announcement, which will not only offer you information about the Money Processes, but about other "opportunities" (or flopportunities, as my pal Salty Droid used to say) as well. The Big Announcement will last an hour to an hour and a half, but presumably it will not actually include the training itself, which will cost money, which, as Katie has explained, he needs in order to pay the FTC and remain a free-ish man.

At one point towards the end of his Telegram spiel, Trudeau said that his teaching about the Money Processes will remove all of your blocks against money -- that it will be like removing a dark cloud from your brain. I wonder if this dark cloud is anything at all like the brain cloud that Joe Banks was supposedly suffering in one of my favorite movies, Joe Versus The Volcano. Be that as it may, we have Katie's solemn assurance about his Big Announcement: "This is a wonderful blessing for you."

Bless his grifting little heart.

Several folks who are ex-Trudeau loyalists/insiders, and who in their former lives put an enormous amount of time, effort, and emotional energy into supporting his scampire, have contacted me about this Big Announcement. Fortunately, they've learned their lessons about Katie's endless capacity for bullshit, and not one of them was even mildly tempted to get sucked back into the grift funnel, despite having given over a major part of their lives to Trudeau in the past. In their own way, they all said they are profoundly relieved to be away from the cult, and that it's painfully obvious to them that this latest Big Announcement is just more of the same old same old. I applaud these folks for finally seeing the light.

Unfortunately there are vast numbers of other marks and potential marks who are still vulnerable, and I know that nothing I write here will change the minds of those who are truly determined to be led by the nose into the Katie cult. But I'll keep on trying.

Meanwhile, I'm taking the rest of the year off from blogging -- that is, unless something really big comes up tomorrow, the last day of 2022. I hope all of you have a safe and happy New Year's Eve/Day, and I'll see you next year.