<P> Trudeau was convicted of fraud and larceny in the early 1990s . The FTC has sued him repeatedly and keeps an extensive record of its conflicts with him . A court order currently restricts his ability to promote and sell any product or service; however, he is permitted to promote books and other publications due to free - speech protection under the First Amendment as long as they are not used to promote or sell products or services and do not contain misrepresentations . On November 19, 2007, a court found Trudeau in contempt of that court order for making deceptive claims about his book The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About . In August 2008, he was fined more than $5 million and banned from infomercials for three years for continuing to make fraudulent claims pertaining to the book . The amount of the monetary damages was later increased to $37 million . </P> <P> In 1990, Trudeau posed as a doctor in order to deposit $80,000 in false checks, and in 1991 he pleaded guilty to larceny . That same year, Trudeau faced federal charges of credit card fraud after he stole the names and Social Security numbers of eleven customers of a mega memory product and charged $122,735.68 on their credit cards . He spent two years in federal prison because of this conviction . Later, in an interview, he explained his crimes as: </P> <P>... youthful indiscretions and not as bad as they sound, and besides, both were partly the fault of other people, and besides, he has changed . The larceny he explains as a series of math errors compounded by the "mistake" of a bank official . As for why the bank thought he was a doctor, that was just a simple misunderstanding, because he jokingly referred to himself as a "doctor in memory". He still can't quite believe he was prosecuted for the larceny charges . "Give me a break," he says . </P> <P> Trudeau began working for Nutrition For Life, a multi-level marketing program, in the mid-1990s . In 1996, his recruitment practices were cited by the states of Illinois and Michigan, as well as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . Illinois sued Trudeau and Jules Leib, his partner, accusing them of operating an illegal pyramid scheme . They settled with Illinois and seven other states for $185,000 after agreeing to change their tactics . Michigan forbade him from operating in the state . A class action lawsuit was filed by stockholders of Nutrition for Life for violations of Texas law, including misrepresenting and / or omitting material information about Nutrition for Life International, Inc.'s business . In August 1997, the company paid $2 million in cash to common stockholders and holders of warrants during the class period to settle the case . The company also paid the plaintiffs' attorney fees of $600,000 . </P>

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