TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau

Kevin Trudeau walks through the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago, February 11, 2010. In the decade since regulators first accused him of conning consumers into buying his weight-loss books, TV pitchman Trudeau has been ordered off the air, fined nearly $38 million and threatened several times with jail for contempt of court. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)