Would You Buy A Used Cure From This Man?
news article · 2005
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SUMMARY
Investigative feature reproducing primary court documents (indictment, sentencing psychiatric report, a letter from Trudeau's mother) from Kevin Trudeau's 1991 federal credit-card-fraud case. Fetched via an Internet Archive Wayback capture (2026-07-10) after the live site could not be reached directly; the article carries no individual byline (site convention) and a dateline of "AUGUST 26," internally dated to 2005 by its own statement that Trudeau, born February 1963, was "now 42." Reports that in April 1991, at 28, Trudeau pleaded guilty to two counts of using "unauthorized access devices" to defraud American Express of $122,735.68 over five years using false names and Social Security numbers, plus roughly $5,000 from other banks including Chemical and Citibank; the case was filed in Massachusetts. Reports a prior grand larceny charge, a sentencing psychiatric evaluation by Dr. Daniel Schwartz diagnosing a "mixed personality disorder," a sentence of two years before Judge Edward Harrington, release in August 1993 after about 21 months served, and two years of probation.
NOTES
TheSmokingGun.com’s 2005 feature is the source for the specific facts of Kevin Trudeau’s 1991 federal fraud conviction: the exact dollar amount defrauded, the mechanism (false identities and Social Security numbers used to obtain credit), the court, the sentence, and the release date. It reproduces primary court documents rather than merely describing them, and its account of Trudeau’s age and the case’s disposition is independently consistent with the New York Times’ contemporaneous profile (Warner 2005). Used here for biographical/background facts about the practitioner’s history prior to the “Natural Cures” enterprise, not for any claim about the health products themselves.