Recently found out and I'm just why it took long.
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Essentially because he had the money to appeal and had lawyers who were good enough to use the system against itself. There was also the fact that the first amendment protected Trudeau against a lot of what he was being charged with. Trudeau is probably a symbol of everything that is wrong with the american justice system.
You can read about the multiple court cases and the most recent one (2014) here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau#Legal_proceedings
thanks. If only the news did their job he might of been locked up sooner. but then again that would require the news media to do their job.