Medicine Show
January 20, 2006
For years, Kevin Trudeau used late-night infomercials to pitch everything from memory enhancers to cancer cures. He was eventually sued by the Federal Trade Commission, and, in a settlement, agreed to pay two million dollars and cease product sales. And so he did the only thing the government would let him do: he wrote a book called Natural Cures They Don’t Want You to Know About. But, as reporter Sebastian Krueger reports, Trudeau hasn’t exactly stayed one step ahead of the law.
