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Calorie Commando Gets Nine Years in the Slammer

Cutting calories from your meals yields dramatic weight loss, but cutting corners when trying to kill your spouse only gets you a hefty nine years in state prison. So it goes for Juan Carlos Cruz, the former Hotel Bel-Air pastry chef and Food Network personality who was sentenced today for plotting to have his wife killed, after he pleaded no contest to solicitation of murder. Even creepier than the title of his last book (The Love Diet) was the fact that he turned and winked at his former flame before being lead out of the courtroom. [WP]

Calorie Commando Gets Nine Years in the Slammer