{"id":16561,"date":"2011-10-03T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16561"},"modified":"2011-10-03T10:38:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:38:05","slug":"don-lapre-dead-tv-pitchman-suicide-breaking-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16561","title":{"rendered":"Don Lapre DEAD: TV Pitchman SUICIDE \u2013 BREAKING DETAILS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16561 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16562\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"lapre header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lapre-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The TV pitchman Don Lapre was found dead in an Arizona jail cell yesterday, an apparent suicide. The investigation is ongoing surrounding the death. Lapre was on trial for fraud in the sum of 52 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In the early to middle 1990s, Lapre sold phone lines with the promise of wealth, claiming that he made 50,000 dollars a week from his small apartment. <!--more--> He continued his get rich quick schemes, with a pyramid scheme for \u201cThe Greatest Vitamin in the World.\u201d That led to 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and promotional money laundering with his company.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, he would have faced up to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee The TV pitchman Don Lapre was found dead in an Arizona jail cell yesterday, an apparent suicide. The investigation is ongoing surrounding the death. Lapre was on trial for fraud in the sum of 52 million dollars. In the early to middle 1990s, Lapre sold phone lines with the promise of wealth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2825,5697,5700,5698,679,5699],"class_list":["post-16561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-dead","tag-don-lapre","tag-fraud","tag-infomercial","tag-suicide","tag-vitiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}