235 37 One of them was Bob Hattaway, a former state legislator from Altamonte Springs who came to Arizona to testify for Turner. (As for The Apprentices more famous host Donald Trump, a nepo baby who cosplayed a successful mogul on the show we all know how that turned out.). Eventually, the truth comes out. During the eight-week trial, however, two former top Turner aides testified that Challenge officials knew their operation was illegal. . Glenn Wesley Turner August 19, 1934 - January 8, 2020 Lake Mary, Florida Set a Reminder for the Anniversary of Glenn's Passing Forward to Family & Friends Share a Memory Print Contact Support Upgrade Death Certificates Share This Obituary Make a Memorial Donation Tributes.com partners with over 100 national charities. Even as Turner attracted increasingly negative attention in 1972, he was arrested on 86 counts of violating securities laws the phrase gained popularity in a more earnest context within Alcoholics Anonymous. The premise of Koscot was that participants could sell cosmetics door-to-door or at parties. 0000001660 00000 n Turner, 57, served nearly two-thirds of a seven-year term in Arizona for fleecing investors in a scheme for distributing motivational tapes. [17] Turner described it as one of the first "pyramid marketing" companies in America. Turner himself offers one cautionary tale. As far as Ive been able to discover, these are among the first times that this now commonplace phrase received prominent mention in the media. 0000001769 00000 n Mr. Maxa has the newspaper reporter's habit of cramming in information wherever it will fit, whether apposite or no. Glenn W. Turner, 53, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty, who said he had received scores of letters on behalf of the two Goldenrod, Fla., men. Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). [12] The indictment said that Bailey had appeared in a film made for Turner's organization and had appeared with Turner at several rallies. These circumstances have led us into a society that is both more cynical and more predatory, both more receptive to and encouraging of outright fakers. Both stood with their hands folded behind their backs as Dougherty announced the prison terms. 0000008424 00000 n "[9], The company was investigated by the Federal Trade Commission,[4][10] and in June 1973 the company was found guilty of deceptive trade practices. By the spring of 1969, Turner was living in a large home on Lake Maitland near Orlando Florida, and "had eight Cadillacs and a Rolls-Royce, three Learjets and a closetful of tailor-made suits and alligator shoes". The con artist became a business model, says Micki McGee, author of Self-Help, Inc. Its only in a market-worshiping economy that you can say defrauding people in the interest of profit would somehow be okay.. They were convicted last month on charges of conspiracy, fraud and illegal pyramid sales in connection with their Challenge Inc. motivational program. <>stream JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. Last month Turner, who turned 53 on Wednesday, and Rector, 57, were convicted on one count of conspiracy, nine counts of fraud, and nine counts of running an illegal pyramid sales scheme. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> 0000003839 00000 n Unfortunately, the multi-level cosmetic company became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the . A Maricopa County Superior Court jury convicted Turner and Rector Tuesday on charges that they promoted a pyramid scheme, similar to chain letters, with their motivational company Challenge. Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. Dropping the creator of Dilbert is free speech at work, Ron DeSantis shows how not to run an education system, False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes. ", "Opinion This all-but-forgotten con man sold America on 'fake it till you make it', Juice Plus AKA National Safety Associates, European Grouping of Marketing Professionals, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koscot_Interplanetary&oldid=1142208959, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 02:56. 256 pages. As inequality grew, almost all gains went to those already at the top, leaving many convinced that pretending to be on top already was the best way to make it so. 0000005760 00000 n Turner, the son of a sharecropper, told people they could all be rich and successful like him if, that is, they made an investment in his multi-level marketing company. 0000005276 00000 n Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. Bids on the Castle property will be advertised over the next few weeks to notify any other bidders of the pending sale. endstream endobj 166 0 obj <>stream 0000003563 00000 n 0000001036 00000 n trailer He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses.[30]. [3], The company was termed as part of the "big three" scams, in a 1974 United States Senate hearing before the Consumers of the Committee on Commerce that dealt with pyramid sales. uOf2v]IM{7\~CPWb=sVX\IQ2ec )^y&wM9t>5YO! But the real bait was the right to sell the righttosell to other suckers on the principle of a chain letter. 748 as an example of pyramid schemes. "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. In the low-interest-rate environment of the past decade, investors put up money with little diligence, and fake it till you make it turned toxic. Lawyers for Turner and Rector asked Dougherty to let their clients remain free while they appealed their convictions. Since many of them were enmeshed as much by greed as by hope, one's sympathy is tempered. The promised El Dorado, however, was reserved for those who put up the requisite amount for becoming distributors; this gave them the right to sell distributorships to others, retaining a healthy percentage of the fee. [22] According to the Duke Law Journal: "Illegality permeated every facet of the promotion of the Holiday Magic marketing program. the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. [16] Katz's Everybody's Business: An Almanac also referred to Holiday Magic as a "pyramid sales organization". What happened? "And so can you," they would tell the crowd. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Jurors found them innocent of 27 counts of securities violations involving Challenge Inc., a motivational company. By Rudy ???trated. 0000043655 00000 n Glenn W. Turner, who was frequently described himself as a harelipped sharecropper's son (leaving some doubt as to which of them was afflicted), built an ephemeral fortune on a pyramid selling scheme in the late 1960's and early 70's. 0000001660 00000 n 0000003297 00000 n Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). [13], The company was cited by the United States House of Representatives in a 1975 hearing[14] as an example of consumer fraud, again in 1977,[15] and in 1991, in a hearing by the House Committee on Small Business. 0000008424 00000 n Box 1. If he never quite tells us what made Glenn Turner runthat is was he a con artist or merely an overeupeptic free enterpriser?no one else knew either, including perhaps Turner. One representative pyramid venture, Dare to be Great, Inc., is de-scribed in SEC v. Glenn W Turner Enterprises, Inc. 8 . [19] Tobias poked fun at the pyramid nature of the organization, in his book The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, telling readers to be wary of "..Holiday Magic - where the big money to be made was not in selling cosmetics, but in selling franchises to sell franchises (to sell franchises).."[20] Howe wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that Holiday Magic was "..one of the largest of all pyramid schemes.."[21], Holiday Magic is used as an example in graduate level criminal justice coursework to analyze the nature of corporate scams. Turner, imprisoned in Arizona prison for fraud, has owed the IRS millions of dollars in back taxes for more than a decade, and the agency has succeeded in foreclosure proceedings against the property in Seminole County. %PDF-1.7 % What does it mean for a nation to valorize faking it as a means to an end and is there any way for Americans to turn back? A few months later, another seller would tell a Florida courtroom that he, too, had been instructed to fake it till you make it. When the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Turners company, a judge cited the phrase as evidence of malfeasance. Glenn Turner was, as he liked to tell anyone within earshot of his pitch, sharecropper's son 'and a gradeschool dropout and had a harelip (albeit corrected by surgery) who had lifted himself. Dougherty also ordered Turner and Rector to pay $44,000 each in fines to be distributed to victims. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. Abe F. March held several executive positions for Holiday Magic and parent company U.S. Universal; Regional Vice President, Canada (19711972), Vice President, Greece (19721973) and Managing Director for Sta-Power, Germany (1973). 0000003018 00000 n More than 88,000 people have invested about $44 million in various organizations operated by Turner, according to Federal Trade Commission figures cited by Attorney General Bob Corbins office in 1980. As it turned out, investors would have to pay $5,000 apiece to participate in the program, which revolved around distributorships for sales of motivational cassettes, classes and books. Attorneys for the two said their convictions would be appealed and asked that they be freed on bond until their appeals are heard. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 0000002472 00000 n It is here that Mr. Maxa shows unusual ability to compress tedious and protracted legal wrangles (one trial lasted nine months) into an absorbing account. The good that I have done outweighs the bad. "Pyramid Sales: Hearing Before the Subcommittee for Consumers of the Committee on Commerce, United States Congress", 1974, United States Congress, Pp. 0000006135 00000 n [1] It became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the 1970s.[2]. The Rise and Fall of Glenn Turner and His Financial Pyramid, https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/16/archives/the-rise-and-fall-of-glenn-turner-and-his-financial-pyramid.html. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. 72-390. Although Turner did eventually get some cosmetics on the market, the pyramid idea was always at the heart of his operation, accounting for $75 million of its total $115 million in sales; and he started a second company, merchandising a howtobeasuccess course called Dare to Be Great on the same principle. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. Employing a pyramid selling scheme and an evangelical, downhome platform style, Turner cajoled thousands of ordinary folks into putting up varying amounts, in return for which they would sell Turner's beauty products. 0000041306 00000 n "They come from all over this country and abroad. Participants could pay $2,000 to be a supervisor or $5,400 to be a director. Glenn W. Turner, who was frequently described himself as a "harelipped sharecropper's son" (leaving some doubt as to which of them was afflicted), built an ephemeral fortune on a pyramid. We dont trust the government, media or big business. As Elizabeth Holmes gives way to Sam Bankman-Fried, who gives way to George Santos, its worth pondering why our society has embraced an ethos popularized by a huckster such as Turner. Before the IRS gets its share, Seminole County has the right to collect $16,900 in unpaid property taxes for 1987, said county Tax Collector G. Troy Ray. That spirit is everywhere. But what made him "really rich" was reportedly Koscot Interplanetary[6] (Koscot stood for "Kosmetics for the Communities of Tomorrow"). [28], Ben Gay, a high-level instructor at Leadership Dynamics, was President of Holiday Magic in the United States. Koscot Interplanetary was a company from Orlando, Florida, selling mink oil-based cosmetics and was started by Glenn W. Turner in 1967. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. A technicality of the law is what got me. By the time he died in 2020, it took more than a year for a newspaper reporter to stumble across his Legacy.com obituary and make note of his death. "They conspired to get Mr. Turner," said another woman. 5616. The saying became so pervasive in Amway that it would be the title of a 1980s expos by Phil Kerns. And we need to be less credulous and stop falling for the next shiny thing. And the Wells Fargo C-suite was looking the other way as employees, desperate to meet unrealistic sales quotas, opened millions of fake bank and credit card accounts. At the same time, the federal government became less likely to prosecute obvious malfeasance. Its backed by no government, is all but impossible to use and serves no legal need. 0 What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. 0000008799 00000 n 235 37 ", Nevertheless, Dougherty said, the men deserved prison terms because "some of these victims suffered great emotional and financial harm by your actions.". [28] Holiday Magic distributors were invited, though not required, to attend the Leadership Dynamics Institute self-improvement sessions at a cost of $1000 each. Anyone can read what you share. 0000006135 00000 n 0000023769 00000 n A group of a half-dozen former Challenge participants, who would not give their names, said after the sentencing that Turner and Rector did nothing wrong. [18] Clarke referred to the company as an "illegitimate" business. 0000002742 00000 n 0000043655 00000 n He first pushed cosmetics and later a motivation course called Dare to Be Great. of plan, which will be referred to as the Glenn Turner or multi-level distributorship scheme, the promoters offer to the public a series of contracts called "Adventures." 11106 (1975). "I think the court's ruling today put the final period in the final chapter of the book on Glenn Turner.". The Last Podcast on the Left, a podcast covering topics like serial killers, conspiracy theories, and cults, discussed Holiday Magic on a 2023 episode about David Miscavige. We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. But Turner seems to have genuinely convinced himself he was offering the little people a splendid opportunity. JPMorgan Chase fell for Frank, a college financial planning outfit whose customer base it later (allegedly) discovered was mostly made up of fake email addresses created at the behest of founder Charlie Javice. 1. Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. By Rudy Maxa. Extensive notes. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Turner barely escaped jail in 1975 when a federal jury in Florida was unable to reach a verdict after a nine-month fraud trial. Psychiatrist Alfred Adler, writing in the early 20th century, argued people could change habits by embracing an act as if strategy: assume a behavior and, eventually, it will become real. (unrelated to Holiday Magic). [4], Patrick, a student of Alexander Everett (founder of Mind Dynamics), used Mind Dynamics techniques as well as the Silva Method in the Holiday Magic organization. mid plans has focused on a single organization, Glenn W. Turner Enter-prises, Inc., a holding company with 68 subsidiaries3 including the two most successful and most maligned pyramid schemes, DG and its sister company Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. Senate. Turner and his best. 0000005276 00000 n Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs. According to 2019 surveys done by the Pew Research Center, almost half of us say Americans are not as reliable as in the past. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/archives/dare-to-be-great-a-sincere-con-man.html. "[23] One of the Holiday Magic Inc. cases was also cited by The University of Chicago Law Review[24] and the Columbia Law Review. 0000002472 00000 n The guy at the top could make millions. [28] The Mind Dynamics course was described as providing "a means of achieving personal success through the conscious use of the subconscious mind". The empire collapsed in the early 1970s when authorities accused Turner of violating laws against pyramid sales, in which investors at the top make a fortune and those who get in later lose money. Yes, the ethos can lead to success, as long as you actually have the goods and the skills. 0000002201 00000 n House Committee on Small Business, 1991. One bought a cosmetics distributorship for $4,500 and became entitled to sell distributorships to others, pocketing a fat commission. [5][29], William Penn Patrick bought Mind Dynamics in 1970. It all carne tumbling down eventually. 0000001036 00000 n 0000041122 00000 n Two dwarfs would hop out and unroll a red carpet. ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ A three-story, 16-room castle owned by onetime motivational entrepreneur Glenn Turner is going on the auction block, with the Internal Revenue Service and other creditors splitting the proceeds. Although Turner was never convicted of a criminal charge, he received probation in a mailfraud case after arranging with the prosecution to plead no contest to a lesser charge. The state officer who conducted Turner's investigation noted, "Mr. Turner has demonstrated to this officer an uncanny ability to confuse issues and extend compliments.". Mr. Maxa, Washington Post reporter, describes this ripe chapter in the annals of Boobus Americanus with clarity and an eye for the juicy detail. The company called Zolene was about to go out of business. [7], When some salespeople found customers in short supply, Turner encouraged them to 'fake it until you make it,' by wearing expensive clothes and waving around $100 bills to lure in others". In 1975, Turner pleaded guilty to a single charge of violating securities laws and was given probation. In 2006 he published a book (To Beirut and Back - An American in the Middle East) dealing, in part, with his experiences. A few of their supporters cried as the sentences were read. There, it appeared as a way for people in recovery to project themselves forward into a more sober future. See the article in its original context from. Glenn W. Turner, 53 years old, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty. But that came later. In the lawsuit, Avon Products' claimed that "Holiday Magic employees distributed leaflets accusing Avon of goon squads, paying off The District attorney's office.."[7], In June 1973, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Holiday Magic,[8] charging Patrick with "bilking some 80,000 people out of more than $250 million through his Holiday Magic cosmetics and soap empire. The two men told Dougherty before sentencing that they never intended to break the law. [7] He told reporters as he was led away to jail: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. 235 0 obj As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The book has its lighter moments. This is a good little book about an earnest con artist who ripped off the American public for $75 million. 0000007782 00000 n [1], Pyramid schemes being illegal, Koscot became involved in substantial litigation from government agencies and Koscot's customers. Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Lotstein acknowledged that not all of the Challenge "victims" were pleased that Turner was prosecuted. 0000023769 00000 n 58.95. There being no provision in either law or morality for fraud without intent, it's hard to figure out what that makes Glenn Turner. <> [1] To form the pyramids of success, many directors, larger numbers of supervisors, salespeople and still more customers were needed. But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. %%EOF )[6] Glenn W. Turner, 53, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty, who said he had received scores of letters on behalf of the two Goldenrod, Fla., men. But nowhere has the ethos of fake it found more fertile soil than in Silicon Valley, where the line between optimism and deceit can admittedly be a fine one. Illustrated. The castle and boathouse have been vacant for several years, and the castle has been used only for tours by the public for charitable events. Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. Our intent was to help people. Cryptocurrency arrived, basically a fake it till you make it form of money. A nine-month trial ended in a hung jury. "Equal Credit Opportunity Act Amendments and Consumer Leasing Act-1975., Hearings, United States Congress. "They come from preachers, lawyers, housewives, plumbers, carpenters," Dougherty said. Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. 748 - IN THE MATTER OF HOLIDAY MAGIC, INC., ET AL. The House was supposed to grow with population. "It is hard for me to believe . Marjoe knew, Clifford Irving knew, but Mr. Maxa, who doesn't seem to be just anybody's fool, honestly believes that Turner honestly believed that he was honest. The $5,000 investment paid for motivational seminars and tapes, but the indictment said the real business of the pyramid operation was to induce more people to invest money to become salespeople who, in turn, were expected to recruit others. Traditionally, businesses have had to state their returns using metrics that can only be faked by lying. 0000010114 00000 n Originally the organization distributed goods such as home-care products and cosmetics. 0000037159 00000 n His sales rallies became legend. 0000007360 00000 n v. Robert W. Warren et al. Today, the phrase is also a way to push back on the feelings of self-doubt we call impostor syndrome, or to put forward an advantageous personal or professional confidence we might not entirely feel. No surprise, trust is cratering. But perhaps the most accurate description of Turner's victims was that of some cynical lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission who referred to them as Thalidomides.. Just when one has about decided there is little more one wants to know about the harelipped sharecropper's son, the book changes focus to the years of various legal proceedingssecurities irregularities, mail fraud, obtaining money through false pretensesthat finally stopped the unstoppable Turner. In the end, Turner was saved by New Orleans evangelist, known as the Chaplain of Bourbon Street, who also pointed the way to fiscal salvation by introducing Turner to his own business managera former minister himself. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE 80+ Glenn Turner Houston, TX (Inner Loop) View Full Report Addresses Yoakum Blvd, Houston, TX Turner ran in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate election in Florida, 1974, but lost. 0000006496 00000 n If anybody was hurt by our program or suffered because of it, I am sure sorry, Rechtor said. Two years later he founded Dare to be Great, a motivational program similar to the later Challenge. United States District Court, D. Oregon. Turner was a former sewing machine salesman and son of a South Carolina sharecropper and an unwed mother, born with a cleft palate and a hair lip, who dropped out in the eighth grade, did a short stint in the U.S. Air Force before successfully finishing a school for those who had dropped out of high school. 0000003018 00000 n [30] In popular culture [ edit] But it draws on older strains in American life, marrying psychological concepts on how to change human behavior with the positive-thinking self-help culture that might as well be Americas unofficial state religion. 2/10/75, p. 38) and Bestline . 0000007360 00000 n An interesting man, Glenn Turner, and Rudy Maxa, a Washington Post reporter, has an interesting problemwhat do you do with a con man who doesn't know he's a con man? One report has him convicted of running a pyramid scheme in Arizona in 1985 and released after five years in prison. Turner, the son of a sharecropper, told people they. When a federal judge lumped together 1,000 of those lawsuits into a single class-action suit seeking nearly $1 billion, Turner went bankrupt. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. . The Dream, a podcast about multi-level marketing, discussed Holiday Magic and William Penn Patrick. Prosecutors said Rector and Turner also failed to warn investors that Challenge had been sued and was facing large judgments. Ward, et al. All these characters in bright red polyester doubleknits, with rhinestone flag lapel pins, dashing around the country making people hum, MMMMMMMM MONEY!. Just before sentencing, Rector told Dougherty that Challenge had done nothing wrong. In my business, theres just no faking it, Stewart said. In re HOLIDAY MAGIC SECURITIES AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION., James J. He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses. /b+;*R2VL5 WC^ ;_>[AM "su`/d_w$3qhTGS;#m!bytBefF~s*GB9z\eBUK,nrEYXn u.$leJrk5@ Turner, 53, created a $300 million empire in the 1970s by selling distributorships in his Dare to be Great and Koscot International companies. At the meeting Turner's proteges would run to the stage in their flashy suits and fancy shoes, with $100 or even $1,000 bills pinned to their lapels. He was paroled in November but must be supervised by. If it can happen to Charles Colson, folks, you gotta believe. While prosecutors and defense attorneys haggled over legal issues for an hour before the sentencing, Turner, wearing a blue suit, boots and a shirt with a wrinkled collar, yawned and winked at more than 20 friends and supporters in the courtroom. Wm9T > 5YO into a single charge of violating securities laws and was large. 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