. Our intent was never to go out and commit a criminal act., Later, as he was leaving the courtroom in handcuffs, Turner told reporters, I think history will tell what I really was. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. The Challenge program was similar to Turners Dare to be Great program, which won him national attention during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the state attorney generals office said. "I think the court's ruling today put the final period in the final chapter of the book on Glenn Turner.". 11106 (1975). 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. 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. Participants could pay $2,000 to be a supervisor or $5,400 to be a director. 0000009459 00000 n We need a reset, and to find a way to once again prioritize and reward diligent, honest effort over faux success. (Javice has denied the banks claims.) 0000007782 00000 n 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, the son of a sharecropper, told people they. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). 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. 0000008799 00000 n "Summary of Testimony and Findings and Conclusions Resulting from Hearings in New York on Drug Law. Two dwarfs would hop out and unroll a red carpet. 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. 1. 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. United States House of Representatives. 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. PHOENIX, ARIZ. Glenn W. Turner, a farmboy who built and lost a multimillion-dollar financial empire with his pyramid sales schemes, lost his freedom Thursday. A lot of books have been written about Mr. Turner and today weve put the final period in the final chapter of the saga of Glenn Turner, Lotstein said. [25] The Office of the State Attorney General in Maine, United States cites In re Holiday Magic, Inc., 84 F.T.C. If anybody was hurt by our program or suffered because of it, I am sure sorry, Rechtor said. 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. 0000002742 00000 n 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.. torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! 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. Since his victims were usually the little people, the guys who are always getting it in the neck from the system anyway, it was a matter of hitting cripples. 0000006496 00000 n 0000023769 00000 n 0000001660 00000 n 0000031782 00000 n 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. WASHINGTON, May 17 The Securities and Exchange Commission asked a Federal District Court today to halt the sale of Glenn W. Turner's pyramid franchising scheme on the ground that it is. At the same time, the federal government became less likely to prosecute obvious malfeasance. Dougherty then passed sentence, despite receiving hundreds of letters in support of Turner. 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. However from a technical perspective, there are differences in the way the two types of schemes operate. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. L|B@9`CwX}LKC But Dougherty denied bond and ordered both men to begin serving their sentences immediately. %PDF-1.6 % As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Yes, the ethos can lead to success, as long as you actually have the goods and the skills. endstream endobj 165 0 obj <>stream "[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. [1], Pyramid schemes being illegal, Koscot became involved in substantial litigation from government agencies and Koscot's customers. The guy at the top could make millions. Mencken, Mr. Maxa says, would have loved Glenn Turner as one of those colorful rogues who enliven the American scene, a sort of cross between Elmer Gantry and Charles Ponzi, whose name is to financial pyramids what Tutankhamen's is to the original. 0000000016 00000 n 0000041306 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. [16] Katz's Everybody's Business: An Almanac also referred to Holiday Magic as a "pyramid sales organization". 0000000016 00000 n 0000005276 00000 n Both stood with their hands folded behind their backs as Dougherty announced the prison terms. "Franchising in Hard Times: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. trailer Prosecutors said Challenge officials misled investors by telling them they would not have to put up their own money. Just before he was sentenced, Turner told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bernard Dougherty, "My intent has never been to hurt but to help. [1] Distributors for Holiday Magic, who took the course, have considered it as a Holiday Magic Business expense. Extensive notes. [28] Holiday Magic distributors were invited, though not required, to attend the Leadership Dynamics Institute self-improvement sessions at a cost of $1000 each. Food delivery services such as Grubhub and Postmates included restaurants on their platforms that didnt have contracts with them. 271 0 obj Glenn W. Turner, 53 years old, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty. "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. 5 OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT AND SEC. 0000006135 00000 n 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. 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 up by his expensive unborncalfskin bootstraps to the leadership of a $100 million business empire. 84 F.T.C. 235 37 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. I didn't take it seriously because I was running for . Lotstein said the men must serve at least two-thirds of the sentence, more than 4 1/2 years, before they are eligible for parole. Under this type. Lotstein said he doubted the money would ever be collected. 0000001791 00000 n The judge refused and the men were led away to jail by deputy sheriffs after they gave their wallets, watches and jewelry to friends in the courtroom. We are forever suspicious, convinced someone else wants to profit at our expense. Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. 748 as an example of pyramid schemes. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. PHOENIX, ARIZ. Glenn W. Turner, a farmboy who built and lost a multimillion-dollar financial empire with his pyramid sales schemes, lost his freedom Thursday. ", United States Congress, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, 1977, P.53. <> What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. 0000008424 00000 n Mr. Maxa has the newspaper reporter's habit of cramming in information wherever it will fit, whether apposite or no. There being no provision in either law or morality for fraud without intent, it's hard to figure out what that makes Glenn Turner. ", United States Congress. 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. The companies collapsed in 1973 under lawsuits filed by investors and investigations by state and federal agencies. 0000003563 00000 n "Pyramid Sales: Hearing Before the Subcommittee for Consumers of the Committee on Commerce, United States Congress", 1974, United States Congress, Pp. Unfortunately, the multi-level cosmetic company became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the . [7] Disillusioned recruits testified against Turner or his companies, and one judge cited the phrase ('fake it until you make it') as evidence of malfeasance. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. Martha Stewart sparked headlines in 2005 when she fired a contestant on The Apprentice who embraced the phrase. 0000002201 00000 n 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. New York: William Morrow & Co. $8.95. DeMuro, RG. One of them was Bob Hattaway, a former state legislator from Altamonte Springs who came to Arizona to testify for Turner. %%EOF This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. In 1967 Turner borrowed $5,000 to start his Koscot Interplanetary Inc., a cosmetics firm in which distributors could sell other distributorships for commissions. [26] Faltinsky described Holiday Magic as "..the largest pyramid scam of all time.."[27], In 1967, William Penn Patrick wrote a booklet, entitled Happiness and Success through Principle, and founded Leadership Dynamics based on those principles. [2][vague] The organization was dissolved in 1974, subsequent to the death of Patrick in 1973. [1], In 1974, after almost 10 years in operation and tied to pyramid schemes and controversy, both Leadership Dynamics and Mind Dynamics ceased operations. 0000002472 00000 n vlyiJ)pd*n\[PN>8Yl^1cyO"`CC\=bu3hB Generally, the product or service is of poor quality, overpriced, or has no purpose other than as a ploy to give the company the appearance of legality. 0000004278 00000 n TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. But what he is actually selling, he . 0000004799 00000 n Turner, Rechtor and a third man, Alan K. Oaks, were accused of defrauding Arizona residents who were promised incomes of $1,000 to $3,000 a month if they invested $5,000 to become sales people for Challenge Inc. Investors were subjected to highly emotional sales and promotion techniques in a process described by company insiders as jacking up prospects, Assistant Attorney General R. Jeffrey Woodburn said during the trial. I have remorse for these people that did not benefit by what we set out to do. If it can happen to Charles Colson, folks, you gotta believe. Those in the positions of Instructor General, Trainer General, and Senior General were required to take the training. He first pushed cosmetics and later a motivation course called Dare to Be Great. Two years later he founded Dare to be Great, a motivational program similar to the later Challenge. Attached to the side stands connected a lone, cylindrical tower that contains a stairwell on the inside. Mr. Maxa has missed very little about Turner's operations and the soueces of his appeal. they indicted me on aiding and abetting running a pyramid scheme. We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. Turner's fame and wealth was to be an inspiration for others to buy franchises so that "they could all be rich and successful like him". 0000045154 00000 n No. uOf2v]IM{7\~CPWb=sVX\IQ2ec )^y&wM9t>5YO! Lawyers for Turner and Rector asked Dougherty to let their clients remain free while they appealed their convictions. Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. .to various charitable organizations. Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. Mr. Maxa cannot resist quoting H. L. Mencken's observation that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. . Oaks pleaded guilty last year to one felony count of operating an illegal pyramid scheme and agreed to testify against Turner and Rechtor. Holiday Magic was a multi-level marketing organization, founded in 1964, by William Penn Patrick (19301973) in the United States. Mailman and Beekman, who pleaded guilty to one count each of violating pyramid laws, will be sentenced next month. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. It is a story that will finally end Thursday in Phoenix, Arizona, where Turner, who turns 53 on Wednesday, faces a potentially long prison sentence for the fraud convictions last month that. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. 0000004119 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 Role of Small Business in Franchising, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Minority Small Business. Mr. Maxa, Washington Post reporter, describes this ripe chapter in the annals of Boobus Americanus with clarity and an eye for the juicy detail. 0000031782 00000 n Rector's only asset is his house, and his only income a $200-a-month military pension, the investigation found. 0000031956 00000 n 0000005276 00000 n [11], In 1973, a federal judge in Pittsburgh combined more than 1,000 lawsuits by unhappy Koscot investors and regulatory officials into "a single class-action lawsuit seeking more than $900 million. The saying became so pervasive in Amway that it would be the title of a 1980s expos by Phil Kerns. By Rudy ???trated. [17] Turner described it as one of the first "pyramid marketing" companies in America. Morrow. ", Dougherty said he also took into account that Turner "has on a consistent basis and a generous basis contributed large sums of money . ", "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. 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. 0000037159 00000 n Company distributors were encouraged to recruit other distributors in a multilevel marketing structure, which was later characterized as a pyramid scheme. I have often wondered if Amway distributors borrowed this terminology from Turners group, or was it Turner who confiscated these words and phrases from some Amway distributors? Kerns wrote. 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. The Glenn Turner court was confronted with the pyramid sales scheme of Dare to Be Great, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc. Ostensibly Dare sold through four "adven-tures" and one "plan" a motivation training course consisting of printed Rector said the men -- Douglas Beekman of Apopka and Richard Mailman of Altamonte Springs -- never voiced such a concern to him. 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. endobj (unrelated to Holiday Magic). . But faking it in matters of money is another matter entirely. 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. "They conspired to get Mr. Turner," said another woman. The Arizona case marked the first felony conviction for Turner, who built a fortune around his Orlando-based pyramid sales 20 years ago. [3], In 1973, Holiday Magic's proceedings were prohibited by the Market Court of Sweden, and a fine of 2 million Swedish kronor was imposed. [5][29], William Penn Patrick bought Mind Dynamics in 1970. "The first time I ever heard those words from those men was in this courtroom," Rector said. deal). "[7] Turner, attorney F. Lee Bailey, and eight others were also indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges. "Our intent was to help people believe in themselves.". Turner, 53, created a $300 million empire in the 1970s by selling distributorships in his Dare to be Great and Koscot International companies. 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. Turner had a talent for making people believe in him. Senate. As Mr, Maxa notes, Americans have always had a weakness for successful rogues. 0000037334 00000 n But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. trailer IT WOULD BE impossible to write a book about the sales empire of Glenn Turner without invoking H. L. Mencken's familiar remark that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. 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. 0000003563 00000 n Ward, et al. Investment of $5,000. [3] Another has him convicted in 1987 along with Edward Rector, on charges of conspiracy, fraud and operating a pyramid scheme, and sentenced to seven years in prison. And we need to be less credulous and stop falling for the next shiny thing. (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.). Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. 0000009459 00000 n 0000037159 00000 n In a fitting finale, Turner, stopped for good and all, is saved by a showy evangelist from New Orleans. <>stream 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. 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.. Turner's long gone from the 1973), participants in a pyramid sales scheme were found to be security holders, since they invested their funds in a common scheme dependent for success directly upon the collective sales efforts of the organization. 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