TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau says he wants to put case ‘behind me’ as judge weighs whether he’s hiding assets

Kevin Trudeau speaks to reporters outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago in 2013. Trudeau could land in jail again, as a judge weighs whether the former TV pitchman is hiding cash he could be using to pay a $37 million judgment for making fraudulent claims in a diet book. (Michael Jarecki/Sun-Times Media file photo)

Whatever else Judge Robert Gettleman learns about the financial maneuvering of TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau, he knows this: People will pay to hear Trudeau speak, read his books and, possibly, pay off the $37 million he owes to people who bought a diet book full of fraudulent claims.

Trudeau, who was released from prison last year after serving a 10-year sentence for making bogus claims about the contents of his best-selling diet book, faces a return trip to federal custody if Judge Robert Gettleman decides Trudeau has concealed millions in offshore accounts and hidden gold bars.