Federal Trade Commission v. Trudeau

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

This decision marks the end of litigation about Kevin Trudeau’s frauds—or so we hope. Earlier decisions affirmed his criminal conviction and sentence and his adjudication in civil contempt after he refused to surrender the profits made from violating orders of the Federal Trade Commission. See United States v. Trudeau, 812 F.3d 578 (7th Cir. 2016); FTC v. Trudeau, 662 F.3d 947 (7th Cir. 2011). The contempt judgment is approximately $38 million, and Trudeau claims to be destitute. Believing that this is just another of his lies, the FTC demanded that firms it thought…