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    RIP Don Lapre

    man who taught so many so much! I have personally helped many of his clients with their home based business's and have seen many succeed becouse of this! Not all business's become successful. All business's require you to take a chance. Don always said ..."YOU DON'T HAVE A CHANCE UNLESS YOU TAKE A CHANCE"


    Donald D. "Don" Lapre (May 19, 1964 – October 2, 2011)[2] was an American TV pitchman. He was a high school dropout[3] who became a multi-level marketing/infomercial salesman.
    His work involved such products as "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and the "Making Money Package". Lapre was criticized as selling questionable business plans that often did not work for his clients. In June 2011, Lapre was charged with 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and promotional money laundering related to his Internet businesses. He was arrested on June 24, 2011, for failing to appear in court to face these charges.[4] On October 2, 2011, Lapre died of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial in federal custody.[2

    A high school drop-out, in 1990 Lapre and his wife started a credit repair business called Unknown Concepts. Lapre then began selling a 36-page booklet explaining how to recover a Federal Home Association insurance refund after paying off a home mortgage. He also began offering "900" phone lines. On TV infomercials that ran during the early-mid 1990s, he claimed that by placing "tiny classified ads" in newspapers he was "able to make $50,000 a week from his tiny one-bedroom apartment". [5]
    In 1992, Lapre began broadcasting The Making Money Show with Don Lapre, which promised viewers that they could make money as easily as he had. For several years the show was ranked among the ten most frequently broadcast cable television infomercials. The principal product was Lapre's "Money Making Secrets", a package of booklets, tapes, and common-sense tips for placing ads and operating a 900-number business. The product was sold through "New Strategies", whose parent company was Tropical Beaches.[3]
    In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Lapre about claims his vitamins were intended as a drug for diseases such as diabetes, stroke, heart disease, insomnia, cancer, and arthritis. The FDA stated "Your products are not generally recognized as safe and effective for the above referenced conditions." In 2006 the FDA again warned Lapre about untruthful claims.[6]



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    F him. He scammed millions that f pretty boy. Hope he has fun being a lap dog of satan.

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    he didnt scam nothing and his vitamin was one of the best , alot of people didn't make money simply because they were either too lazy or many other people were selling the same products.

    He was a very generous many that has donated millions and his products were cheap .

    http://celebritydaily.net/tv/sally-l...n-lapres-wife/

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    Always remember this guy's infomercials


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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    he didnt scam nothing and his vitamin was one of the best , alot of people didn't make money simply because they were either too lazy or many other people were selling the same products.

    He was a very generous many that has donated millions and his products were cheap .

    http://celebritydaily.net/tv/sally-l...n-lapres-wife/

    c'mon guy. He didn't scam anyone, but was in jail for it. He commited suicide in jail. Hmmm, why did he do that if he was innocent?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    he didnt scam nothing and his vitamin was one of the best , alot of people didn't make money simply because they were either too lazy or many other people were selling the same products. He was a very generous many that has donated millions and his products were cheap . http://celebritydaily.net/tv/sally-l...n-lapres-wife/
    tt calling someone else lazy

    fuk this guy

    The 47-year-old had been charged with 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and promotional money laundering with his company, "The Greatest Vitamin in the World."

    He was accused of tricking at least 220,000 people with worthless Internet-based businesses mostly revolving around a pyramid scheme to sell vitamins that did not provide the health benefits he claimed. His company was shut down in 2007 due to multiple complaints. If convicted, he would have faced between $250,000 to $500,000 per count and five to 25 years in federal prison.

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    Eating is not a home based business....

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    I used to watch him yayed out late night on TV.... RIP Don!

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    Didn't the coach buy one of his packages before?

    R.I.P.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jarvol View Post
    Eating is not a home based business....

    For him it is

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    Fuk him

    The only good thing I can say about that turd is he had Cindy Margolis on one of his infomercials

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    pos , burn in hell thief

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    his meds were taken away from him. He never stole anything and was innocent

    Hell they were going after him because the fda and whoever says only a drug can cure a disease which is also not true.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    his meds were taken away from him. He never stole anything and was innocent

    Hell they were going after him because the fda and whoever says only a drug can cure a disease which is also not true.

    Says the fukkin guy who eats a box of Little Debbie cakes and can't figure out why he's not losing weight

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    treadue is the real scumbag

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    litte debbie is the worst thing you can put in your body it is loaded with hydrogenized oils

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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    his meds were taken away from him. He never stole anything and was innocent

    Hell they were going after him because the fda and whoever says only a drug can cure a disease which is also not true.
    TT, I bet you could make a fortune placing tiny obituaries about him in thousands of newspapers.

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