Kevin Talks Politics with Two Insiders!

Are you tired of career politicians?  Whatever happened, to “We The People”?

On Tuesday at 1PM CST, Tim Cox stops by the show to talk about his organization, Get Out Of Our House, or GOOOH (pronounced “go”). Mike will discuss what WE can do to rid our House of Representatives of people who don’t truly represent YOUR best interests!

Andrew Young, author of The Politician, has the inside track on what REALLY happened with the John Edwards scandal. Tune in to The Kevin Trudeau Show on Wednesday at 1pm CST for this exclusive interview!

Kevin is On the Air in West Virginia!

March 3, 2010  - CHICAGO, IL – The Kevin Trudeau show is proud to announce that starting March 7th, 2010, it will be airing on WJLS 560AM in Beckley, WV!

The show will air on WJLS every Sunday at 10pm eastern.

Listeners have compared Kevin Trudeau’s radio show to the best parts of Michael Savage, Howard Stern, Art Bell, John Tesh and Rush Limbaugh.

Mr. Trudeau is one of the most read authors of all time. His books have all been best sellers and have sold over 30 million copies globally. Mr. Trudeau’s most controversial book, Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About was number 1 on the New York Times best sellers list for 26 weeks in a row becoming the best selling health book of all time.

The Kevin Trudeau Radio Show originates from studios at Trudeau’s World Headquarters in Chicago. For information regarding affiliate relations visit www.KevinOnAir.com

Committee Scolds Defiant Rangel

February 25, 2010

Politico.com

By John Bresnahan and Jonathan Allen and Patrick O’Connor

The House ethics committee put another dent in the armor of embattled Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel Thursday, admonishing him for violating House gift rules by accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean through an organization called the Carib News.

But in a tale that promises to provide more intrigue, the committee also found that a former counsel to the Ethics panel, Dawn Kelly Mobley, “improperly communicated confidential internal committee information” to the Carib News and it referred to the Justice Department allegations that employees of the organization – Karl Rodney, Faye Rodney and Patricia Louis – “submitted false or misleading information” to the committee to win prior approval of the trips and later during sworn testimony.

Mobley served as the Ethics Committee’s counsel under the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and was chief of staff to Tubbs Jones’ successor, Rep. Marcia Fudge, as recently as September of 2009, according to House disbursement records published online by Legistorm.

The ruling, which raises questions about the Ethics Committee’s own practices, drew a sharp rebuke from Rangel, who twice hauled Ethics Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and ranking Republican Jo Bonner of Alabama into his private office steps from the House floor before facing reporters at a Capitol news conference.

Despite the admonition, the committee determined that the New York Democrat had no direct knowledge that false or misleading information was given to the committee in its investigation of the trips. Four other lawmakers who went on the same trips were not found to be in violation of House ethics rules.

The committee essentially found that Rangel is responsible for the transgressions of aides who knew of the corporate sponsorship of the trips.

“The committee did not find sufficient evidence to conclude, nor does it believe that it would discover additional evidence to alter its conclusion, that Rep. Rangel had actual knowledge of the memoranda written by his staff,” an Ethics statement says. “However, the report finds that Rep. Rangel was responsible for the knowledge and actions of his staff in the performance of their official duties.”

But Rangel, who read the findings aloud at a news conference, took issue with the concept that staffers’ actions could be “imputed” to him.

“I don’t want to be critical of the committee, but the common sense dictates that members of Congress should not be held responsible for what could be the wrongdoing of, or mistakes occur, as a staff unless there’s reason to believe the member knew or should have known. And there’s nothing in the record to indicate the latter,” he said. “So I have to now deal with my lawyer as to what the hell do they mean that something’s imputed. Does it mean that no matter what a staff member does if the member doesn’t know it that the member could be charged and admonished publicly for it?”

Rangel, who has been accused of a variety of other ethics missteps, insisted to POLITICO that the court of public opinion would clear him once the committee’s report was made public.

“I’m satisfied that when you read the report, that you will see that I have not been found guilty of anything,” Rangel said. We were approved, the trip was approved. Whether or not it should have been approved is a serious issue.”

But the specter of an ethics judgment renewed calls from Republicans for Rangel to step down from his chairmanship of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.

GOP Conference Chair Mike Pence of Indiana used the reports to again call for Rangel to step aside as Ways and Means chair.

“I believe it would be appropriate for him to step aside as chair until these matters are resolved,” Pence said, noting that “these are not the only ethical clouds hanging over his chairmanship.”

Reps. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), Donald Payne (D-N.J.), Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Del. Donna Christensen (D-V.I.) also participated in the trips, but were cleared of wrongdoing.

The committee is continuing to investigate several other matters involving Rangel, including one involving his use of a rent-controlled apartment in New York and another involving allegations that he used his congressional office to raise funds for a New York research center that bears his name.

The 18-month-long-probe into Rangel’s finances has severely undermined his standing in the House, although he has retained his hold in on the Ways and Means Committee thanks to continued support from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats.

Republicans have repeatedly sought to strip Rangel of his Ways and Means gavel, and the party wasted no time in renewing its attack Thursday. Less than an hour after the Associated Press broke the news of the ethics committee’s decision, the National Republican Congressional Committee blasted out an email message declaring: “Investigation Finds Notorious Tax-Writing Tax Cheat Broke House Rule.”

Rangel, who spent most of Thursday at the White House health care summit, said he had not yet seen anything “formal” from the ethics committee but had heard enough from staff to know what was in it.

He said that one of the two aides who were aware of the corporate sponsorship of the Carib News trips was discharged.

Before meeting with Lofgren and Bonner in his private office, an animated Rangel gave them an earful on the House floor in front of other lawmakers.

Asked whether it had been a mistake to go on the Caribbean trips, Rangel said: “Hell, no. Why would I if it was approved by the ethics committee? Why?”

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Judge won’t give infomercial pitchman approval to visit Canada while appealing 30-day sentence

February 25, 2010

Canadian Business

By Mike Robinson

A federal judge refused Wednesday to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while appeals his 30-day criminal contempt sentence in Chicago.

U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman said Trudeau’s $50,000 bond, which also requires him to surrender his passport, was set by a federal appeals court. The judge said he has no authority to interfere with the higher court’s order by giving him permission to go to Canada.

While the bond set by the appeals court does require the passport be surrendered, Gettleman noted he saw nothing in it that would specifically bar a visit to Canada. But he said he was not certain of just what it allows.

“I’d be careful if I were you,” he told Trudeau.

Trudeau — who sells books advocating “natural cures” for a variety of ailments — has been fighting a court battle since 2003 with the Federal Trade Commission over alleged misleading advertising for a diet book.

Gettleman last week found Trudeau in criminal contempt, sentencing him to 30 days and fining him $50,000 — later reduced to $5,000 — for urging his supporters to flood the judge’s computer with messages praising his remedies.

The hundreds of messages that followed crashed Gettleman’s computer and inundated the judge’s BlackBerry while he was teaching a course at Northwestern University law school.

Trudeau left court Wednesday with attorney Thomas Kirsch II, who said they were still deciding whether to take their travel request to the appeals court.

Trudeau said he wants to visit Toronto and Vancouver for unspecified business reasons. The appeals court has yet to decide if it will hold a hearing on the appeal of Gettleman’s sentence.

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Infomercial pitchman denied OK to leave country

February 24, 2010

WBBM

By Associated Press

A federal judge has refused to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while he is appealing his 30-day contempt sentence in Chicago.

Judge Robert Gettleman said Wednesday an appeals court has set Trudeau’s bond – which requires that he surrender his passport – and he can’t interfere with the higher court’s order.

Trudeau sells books advocating “natural cures” for a variety of ailments. He is fighting the government over alleged misleading advertising.

Gettleman last week sentenced Trudeau to 30 days for getting his supporters to flood the judge’s computer with messages, locking up his e-mail.

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Judge won’t give pitchman OK to leave US

February 25, 2010

ABC News

By Associated Press

A federal judge refused Wednesday to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while appeals his 30-day criminal contempt sentence in Chicago.

U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman said Trudeau’s $50,000 bond, which also requires him to surrender his passport, was set by a federal appeals court. The judge said he has no authority to interfere with the higher court’s order by giving him permission to go to Canada.

While the bond set by the appeals court does require the passport be surrendered, Gettleman noted he saw nothing in it that would specifically bar a visit to Canada. But he said he was not certain of just what it allows.

“I’d be careful if I were you,” he told Trudeau.

Trudeau — who sells books advocating “natural cures” for a variety of ailments — has been fighting a court battle since 2003 with the Federal Trade Commission over alleged misleading advertising for a diet book.

Gettleman last week found Trudeau in criminal contempt, sentencing him to 30 days and fining him $50,000 — later reduced to $5,000 — for urging his supporters to flood the judge’s computer with messages praising his remedies.

The hundreds of messages that followed crashed Gettleman’s computer and inundated the judge’s BlackBerry while he was teaching a course at Northwestern University law school.

Trudeau left court Wednesday with attorney Thomas Kirsch II, who said they were still deciding whether to take their travel request to the appeals court.

Trudeau said he wants to visit Toronto and Vancouver for unspecified business reasons. The appeals court has yet to decide if it will hold a hearing on the appeal of Gettleman’s sentence.

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Judge says infomercial pitchman can’t visit Canada while appealing contempt sentence

February 24, 2010

WREX

By The Associated Press

A federal judge in Chicago refused today to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while Trudeau appeals his 30-day criminal contempt sentence.

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman says Trudeau’s $50,000 bond, which also requires him to surrender his passport, was set by a federal appeals court, and he has no authority to interfere with the higher court’s order.

Trudeau sells books advocating what he calls “natural cures” for a variety of ailments. He has been fighting a court battle since 2003 with the Federal Trade Commission over alleged misleading advertising for a diet book.

Gettleman last week found Trudeau in criminal contempt for urging his supporters to flood Gettleman’s judge’s computer with messages praising Trudeau and his remedies.

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Infomercial pitchman denied OK to leave country

February 24, 2010

WREX

By Associated Press

A federal judge has refused to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while he is appealing his 30-day contempt sentence in Chicago.

Judge Robert Gettleman said Wednesday an appeals court has set Trudeau’s bond – which requires that he surrender his passport – and he can’t interfere with the higher court’s order.

Trudeau sells books advocating “natural cures” for a variety of ailments. He is fighting the government over alleged misleading advertising.

Gettleman last week sentenced Trudeau to 30 days for getting his supporters to flood the judge’s computer with messages, locking up his e-mail.

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Judge denies Trudeau request to travel to Canada

February 24, 2010

Chicago Sun-Times

By Natasha Korecki

It’ll be “No, Canada” for Kevin Trudeau — at least for now.

A federal judge this afternoon wouldn’t grant the infomercial king, controversial author and radio host’s request to travel to Canada and other parts of the country for “business engagements.”

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said he thought the matter was out of his hands now that Trudeau, found in criminal contempt of court earlier this month and sentenced to 30 days in prison, has filed an appeal.

The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals put a temporary halt to the prison sentence, pending arguments before a three-judge panel there.

Gettleman penalized Trudeau after he urged his followers to deluge the judge’s email box regarding his ongoing civil case. Gettleman said Trudeau was trying to improperly influence the bench. Trudeau has said he believed he was exercising his First Amendment right.

Since his contempt finding, Trudeau, who continues to keep up a healthy tan, has been bound by a court order that doesn’t let him leave the Northern District of Illinois. Trudeau, who has a residence in Hinsdale, was ordered to give up his passport.

Trudeau sought to travel to Vancouver and Toronto as well as other parts of the country for “medical appointments and numerous business engagements,” according to a federal court filing.

Trudeau’s criminal lawyer, Thomas L. Kirsch, said he is still weighing whether to ask the appeals court if his client can travel.

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Judge: Informercial pitchman can’t leave country

February 25, 2010

Business Week

By Mike Robinson

A federal judge refused Wednesday to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while appeals his 30-day criminal contempt sentence in Chicago.

U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman said Trudeau’s $50,000 bond, which also requires him to surrender his passport, was set by a federal appeals court. The judge said he has no authority to interfere with the higher court’s order by giving him permission to go to Canada.

While the bond set by the appeals court does require the passport be surrendered, Gettleman noted he saw nothing in it that would specifically bar a visit to Canada. But he said he was not certain of just what it allows.

“I’d be careful if I were you,” he told Trudeau.

Trudeau — who sells books advocating “natural cures” for a variety of ailments — has been fighting a court battle since 2003 with the Federal Trade Commission over alleged misleading advertising for a diet book.

Gettleman last week found Trudeau in criminal contempt, sentencing him to 30 days and fining him $50,000 — later reduced to $5,000 — for urging his supporters to flood the judge’s computer with messages praising his remedies.

The hundreds of messages that followed crashed Gettleman’s computer and inundated the judge’s BlackBerry while he was teaching a course at Northwestern University law school.

Trudeau left court Wednesday with attorney Thomas Kirsch II, who said they were still deciding whether to take their travel request to the appeals court.

Trudeau said he wants to visit Toronto and Vancouver for unspecified business reasons. The appeals court has yet to decide if it will hold a hearing on the appeal of Gettleman’s sentence.

Click here for the full report

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