United States v. Trudeau, 822 F.3d 825 (7th Cir. 2016)
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SUMMARY
Seventh Circuit opinion affirming Kevin Trudeau's criminal-contempt conviction and his 10-year prison sentence. Fetched directly (2026-07-10). Confirms the case name, citation, and decision date, and holds that the below-guidelines 10-year sentence (against an advisory range of 235-293 months) was reasonable given the scale of Trudeau's fraud and the flagrant, repeated nature of his contumacious conduct, rejecting Trudeau's argument that the sentence was disproportionate.
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The Seventh Circuit’s 2016 affirmance closes out the criminal case: it is the final appellate word confirming both the conviction and the severity of the sentence, characterizing the conduct behind it as flagrant and repetitive contumacious conduct. caselaw.findlaw.com is not reachable by the automated verify-quotes gate, so this entry paraphrases rather than block-quotes the court’s language.