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10-03-2011, 08:16 PM
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Infomercial Salesman Don Lapre Kills Self In Jail
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mubCkCAEiDQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> azcentral U.S. Marshals said Donald Lapre, a Phoenix-based infomercial pitchman, was found dead in his cell Sunday at a federal-contract facility in Florence. Lapre was being held on fraud charges linked to his vitamin-selling business. He was arrested in Tempe earlier this year. Lapre was found about 8:30 a.m., unresponsive in an apparent suicide attempt, said Matt Hershey, supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal. Officials refused to say which Florence facility Lapre was in and did not immediately know if he was alone in his housing cell. Prison officials gave lifesaving measures until Florence police and paramedics arrived, said Hershey. Lapre was wanted by law enforcement after he failed to appear at his U.S. District Court arraignment in June on 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, promotional money laundering and transactional money laundering. A federal grand jury indicted Lapre on fraud-related charges for promoting his vitamin-selling business, Greatest Vitamin in the World of Phoenix. The indictments alleged that the business signed up 226,794 people who were promised lucrative commission checks for selling vitamins and recruiting others to the business. Customers and investors spent nearly $51.8 million, but only 5,000 victims were paid about $6.4 million in commission, according to a statement released in June by the U.S. Department of Justice. Lapre collected at least $2.2 million from the business from 2004 to 2007. He will get one more tiny ad in the paper. His obit.  |
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10-03-2011, 08:34 PM
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Re: Infomercial Salesman Don Lapre Kills Self In Jail
my ex wife used to work for a doctor that had a sattelite office in Florence. it was pretty near that prison. that guy looks like a scum bucket but too bad he died all the same. that prison had a bad reputation. i remember them also doing some prisoner executions there when i lived in Phoenix.  |
