to set up redress program for consumers who purchased its products and to alter its advertised earnings claims. In 2002 the FTC brought new charges based on failure to comply with the previous order. In 2002, WCFC was forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by a group of its creditors, including several employees and independent contractors, who claimed they had not been paid for several months. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Glover ordered the company liquidated on January 18, 2003, for failure to provide testimony creditors had requested. In December 2005, Cook and his wife Laura were charged with several counts of income tax evasion. Both pleaded not guilty. According to court documents, the Cooks operated a fraudulent charity, ostensibly to benefit the LDS Church, but instead bought show horses, his and her Cadillacs, a estate, and the majority share of an oil rig which gave Cook the right to name it. He named it after himself. The trial began on January 17, 2007. On February 20, 2007, Cook was found guilty by a federal jury of seven charges for failing to pay taxes on $8.9 million that the government says he should have reported as personal income from 1998 to 2000. His sentencing was set for June 22, 2007. On May 16, 2007, Laura Cook pled guilty to obstructing federal tax laws and faced up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. On August 2, 2007, Cook was sentenced to 88 months in prison, and Laura was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Cook was also ordered to pay back $3.75 million in owed back taxes. On September 4, 2008, Cook was taken into custody at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Washington, preceding transfer to a prison where he was to serve the remainder of his 88-month sentence. He was released from the Federal Satellite Prison Camp Sheridan in Sheridan, Oregon in April 2014 into the custody of the Pioneer Fellowship House in Seattle, Washington, and was released January 22, 2015, according to the federal prison system online search. After his release from prison, Cook began selling the same literature he was selling for years before being imprisoned. Death Cook died of cancer on July 28, 2021. Books by Wade Cook Real Estate Money Machine Stock Market Miracles Don't Set Goals: The Old Way Bear Market Baloney Business Buy the Bible Brilliant Deductions How to