There being no provision in either law or morality for fraud without intent, it's hard to figure out what that makes Glenn 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. 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. Glenn Turner, operator of Challenge, Inc., of Goldenrod, Fla., and two other Florida executives were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury on 126 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and. 0000006496 00000 n Targets for citations in Chain Letter Evolution. I didn't take it seriously because I was running for . Food delivery services such as Grubhub and Postmates included restaurants on their platforms that didnt have contracts with them. A nine-month trial ended in a hung jury. 0000001791 00000 n And we need to be less credulous and stop falling for the next shiny thing. 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. v. Robert W. Warren et al. 0000003297 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. 0000008799 00000 n Under this type. PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) _ The founder of the Dare to be Great motivational program was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for using an illegal pyramid scheme to bilk people out of thousands of dollars. 0000008424 00000 n Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. 5 OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT AND SEC. Z t{Hd)a^lEHuw-GB9Y/S5zcWC8,)X9W^kjx,:h*#H_TNG^Od i~l={'Zg^-0z V|0P%* &C?UG b^>'V/~`C\a(bG 0000005276 00000 n 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.. Attached to the side stands connected a lone, cylindrical tower that contains a stairwell on the inside. [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. On May 16, 1974, a compromise settlement with approximately 31,000 class members, establishing a trust fund worth $2,600,381, was approved by the court. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The guy at the top could make millions. If it can happen to Charles Colson, folks, you gotta believe. 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. [1] It became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the 1970s.[2]. Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. In August 1972, he was charged with "86 counts of sale of unregistered securities and failing to register as a dealer". Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates. We dont trust the government, media or big business. It is apparent from this Court's findings of fact that the defendants are promoting a type of scheme commonly known as a pyramid operation. The IRS, which had a $15 million claim, has been awarded a judgment of $9.275 million, but appraisals put the value of the Turner property at $1 million to $2 million. 0 . 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. Turner's long gone from the 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? [5][29], William Penn Patrick bought Mind Dynamics in 1970. (unrelated to Holiday Magic). 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. %%EOF 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. 235 0 obj "The first time I ever heard those words from those men was in this courtroom," Rector said. 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 Its inherently manipulative, deceptive, fraudulent, inauthentic, says Robert L. FitzPatrick, co-author of False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes. Yet, he adds, its just entered the culture, and its completely normalized.. 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. [4], The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a lawsuit in 1972 charging that Koscot's program should be considered a security and comply with securities laws and regulations. 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. He said neither man would be eligible for release from prison before serving at least two-thirds of the sentence. Participants could pay $2,000 to be a supervisor or $5,400 to be a director. 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. See the article in its original context from. . . In SEC v. Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc., 474 F.2d 476, 482 (9th Cir. The Dream, a podcast about multi-level marketing, discussed Holiday Magic and William Penn Patrick. . [12] Holiday Magic was also labeled a "pyramid scheme" and a "multi-level distributorship" by the United States Bureau of Domestic Commerce, in their 1976 published book: Crimes Against Business: A Management Perspective. ), it's too late to put the book down. 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. Thus one gets sentences such as Meanwhile, in a downtown Frankfurt prison, thirtyeightyearold Turner astounded a U.S. State Department official who visited his cell to explain that the British had requested his arrest on possible charges of fraud in England. Fine time to find out Turner's age. 0000002472 00000 n 0000023584 00000 n "The Role of Small Business in Franchising, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Minority Small Business. Rector said the men -- Douglas Beekman of Apopka and Richard Mailman of Altamonte Springs -- never voiced such a concern to him. By Rudy ???trated. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Martha Stewart sparked headlines in 2005 when she fired a contestant on The Apprentice who embraced the phrase. uOf2v]IM{7\~CPWb=sVX\IQ2ec )^y&wM9t>5YO! To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. "If anyone was hurt in our program, I am extremely sorry. [3] An estimated 70 companies (as of 1972)[4] were owned by Turner (owned by Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc.):[1] Dare to Be Great, which sold motivational and self-improvement courses, and also functioned as a multi-level marketing company;[5] Turner had also briefly worked for Holiday Magic, another multi-level marketing company that sold home-care products and cosmetics, and through related companies sold self-improvement programs. Koscot Interplanetary was a company from Orlando, Florida, selling mink oil-based cosmetics and was started by Glenn W. Turner in 1967. The unfinished castle, its boathouse, stables and surrounding 79 acres will be sold to the highest bidder after a federal court hearing April 26, according to court documents. Just before he was sentenced, Turner told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bernard Dougherty, "My intent has never been to hurt but to help. This book may be edifying but, having long believed, considerable evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, that The People Is Not Dumb, I found it depressing. 84 F.T.C. 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 256 pages. Mr. Maxa has missed very little about Turner's operations and the soueces of his appeal. But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. Senate. When a federal judge lumped together 1,000 of those lawsuits into a single class-action suit seeking nearly $1 billion, Turner went bankrupt. [7] (In 1972 he built a "$3.5 million white stone castle with a helicopter landing pad" on Bear Gulley Lake, also near Orlando. New York: William Morrow & Co. $8.95. 72-390. "[7] Turner, attorney F. Lee Bailey, and eight others were also indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges. Annotated bibliography on chain letters and pyramid schemes. 0000031956 00000 n 0000000016 00000 n Some of the most famous pyramid schemes in U.S. history. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. During the eight-week trial, however, two former top Turner aides testified that Challenge officials knew their operation was illegal. [28] The Mind Dynamics course was described as providing "a means of achieving personal success through the conscious use of the subconscious mind". 0000008799 00000 n 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Both stood with their hands folded behind their backs as Dougherty announced the prison terms. 124., July 6, 1977. 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. [5], The State of California filed suit against Holiday Magic in December, 1972. [5] Extensive notes. In a fitting finale, Turner, stopped for good and all, is saved by a showy evangelist from New Orleans. that our program was a crime," he said. 0000004799 00000 n "Holiday Magic Inc.: An Anatomy of a Scam", United States Securities and Exchange Commission, MLM Law - Lawyer Grimes & Reese PLLC - Attorney Specializing in Multilevel Marketing - HOLIDAY MAGIC, INC., ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO ALLEGED VIOLATION OF SEC. 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. Summary of this case from Great Western Bank & Trust v . 0000023769 00000 n 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. This is a good little book about an earnest con artist who ripped off the American public for $75 million. Turner barely escaped jail in 1975 when a federal jury in Florida was unable to reach a verdict after a nine-month fraud trial. "And so can you," they would tell the crowd. Anyone can read what you share. But faking it in matters of money is another matter entirely. Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). The company called Zolene was about to go out of business. 0000001791 00000 n What happened? 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. Mr. Maxa, Washington Post reporter, describes this ripe chapter in the annals of Boobus Americanus with clarity and an eye for the juicy detail. If anybody was hurt by our program or suffered because of it, I am sure sorry, Rechtor said. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. 0000003563 00000 n [15] Larry Stephen Huff, another key individual in the company, served two years in a Federal Prison, for charges related to a Ponzi scam (unrelated to Holiday Magic).[21]. "[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. Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. startxref "Franchising in Hard Times: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives. Prosecutors said Challenge officials misled investors by telling them they would not have to put up their own money. 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? Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). endobj However from a technical perspective, there are differences in the way the two types of schemes operate. Those in the positions of Instructor General, Trainer General, and Senior General were required to take the training. <>stream The companies collapsed in 1973 under lawsuits filed by investors and investigations by state and federal agencies. But what made him "really rich" was reportedly Koscot Interplanetary[6] (Koscot stood for "Kosmetics for the Communities of Tomorrow"). v. Holiday Magic, Inc., et al., N.D. California, Civil Action No. In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. [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. 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.". 1. 0000037334 00000 n The premise of Koscot was that participants could sell cosmetics door-to-door or at parties. He subsequently bought exclusive rights for Middle East distribution of Holiday Magic cosmetics and formed his own company, Beauty Magic, in Beirut, Lebanon. He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses.[30]. We need a reset, and to find a way to once again prioritize and reward diligent, honest effort over faux success. ", Nevertheless, Dougherty said, the men deserved prison terms because "some of these victims suffered great emotional and financial harm by your actions.". Within a few years Turner's enterprises had made an estimated $300 million. Donate 0000001769 00000 n 0000041306 00000 n 0000006135 00000 n [12] The indictment said that Bailey had appeared in a film made for Turner's organization and had appeared with Turner at several rallies. ", United States Congress, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, 1977, P.53. Today, fake it till you make it has come to represent the scrappy, optimistic mind-set of American hustle culture. According to 2019 surveys done by the Pew Research Center, almost half of us say Americans are not as reliable as in the past. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/archives/dare-to-be-great-a-sincere-con-man.html. 0000023769 00000 n C-74-1067-LHB., No. 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 history of fake it till you make it offers a lesson here, if we want to heed it. Oaks pleaded guilty last year to one felony count of operating an illegal pyramid scheme and agreed to testify against Turner and Rechtor. Our intent was to help people. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Patrick bought all of the cosmetics supplies for $16,250, and founded Holiday Magic, Inc. After the purchase, Patrick began selling distributorships in his new company. vlyiJ)pd*n\[PN>8Yl^1cyO"`CC\=bu3hB "Equal Credit Opportunity Act Amendments and Consumer Leasing Act-1975., Hearings, United States Congress. 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. 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. <> As he was led off to jail, he told reporters: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. However, the focus of the company was more about selling distributorships than cosmetics. endobj 235 0 obj 0000001660 00000 n 0000003839 00000 n Well, it was never really worth all that, and when blizzard of Federal and state charges of fraud, securities irregularity and other actions drove him nearly into bankruptcy, he ended up selling one of his companies for $15,000. [18] Clarke referred to the company as an "illegitimate" business. 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. 235 37 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. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. "All you have to do is believe it."[7]. [1] Distributors for Holiday Magic, who took the course, have considered it as a Holiday Magic Business expense. 0000002742 00000 n 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. 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. 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. Turner, 57, served nearly two-thirds of a seven-year term in Arizona for fleecing investors in a scheme for distributing motivational tapes. 0000006933 00000 n [9] The FTC found that Holiday Magic was in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, and section 2 (a) of the Clayton Antitrust Act. 0000041306 00000 n [1] In 1971, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Koscot, charging restraint of trade. deal). Government needs to return to enforcing meaningful financial regulation; politicians and entrepreneurs who deceive their supporters need to face consequences. [9] "The end began in October 1969, when 14 Koscot distributors in Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana sued Turner for failing to pay promised dividends. But as Turners saga shows, theres a dark side baked into the fake it mentality: the fakers who attempt to win success through fraud, then never make good on their promises. [1] To form the pyramids of success, many directors, larger numbers of supervisors, salespeople and still more customers were needed. Lets fix that. He was featured in an 11-page article in Life magazine in 1971,[8] and was reportedly worth $300 million at the time. 0000010114 00000 n 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. 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. /b+;*R2VL5 WC^ ;_>[AM "su`/d_w$3qhTGS;#m!bytBefF~s*GB9z\eBUK,nrEYXn u.$leJrk5@ what would happen when these distributorships reached the saturation point, when there was no one left to buy a distributorship, and so many people selling cosmetics that it was impossible to recover the large investment from the small cosmetics commissions? 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. 0000041122 00000 n USA vs Glenn W. Turner, Nash Publications, New York, 1976 Rudy Maxa . [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. Theres a difference between psyching yourself up and misrepresenting yourself, and the latter is where fake it has gone too far. [16] Katz's Everybody's Business: An Almanac also referred to Holiday Magic as a "pyramid sales organization". But Dougherty denied bond and ordered both men to begin serving their sentences immediately. 0000001769 00000 n House Committee on Small Business, 1991. %PDF-1.7 % 0000041122 00000 n Koscot was founded in 1967. Two dwarfs would hop out and unroll a red carpet. Holiday Magic was a multi-level marketing organization, founded in 1964, by William Penn Patrick (19301973) in the United States. 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. In my business, theres just no faking it, Stewart said. [1], In 1974, after almost 10 years in operation and tied to pyramid schemes and controversy, both Leadership Dynamics and Mind Dynamics ceased operations. They would peddle mink oil makeup and his Dare to Be Great motivational tapes, and collect more money by recruiting others and taking a percentage on their sales. Investment of $5,000. "They come from preachers, lawyers, housewives, plumbers, carpenters," Dougherty said. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. 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. [10] The FTC's decision on Koscot set a precedent for defining if a company is engaging in illegal pyramiding. The House was supposed to grow with population. hb```e`` /`"\}!5|Z1O(s@Tu4t5UL- M-\\mm||=C#cbC"R32S Lotstein said he doubted the money would ever be collected. One representative pyramid venture, Dare to be Great, Inc., is de-scribed in SEC v. Glenn W Turner Enterprises, Inc. 8 . The distributors could make thousands. [25] The Office of the State Attorney General in Maine, United States cites In re Holiday Magic, Inc., 84 F.T.C. DeMuro, RG. Yes, the ethos can lead to success, as long as you actually have the goods and the skills. 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. "They come from all over this country and abroad. His sales rallies became legend. endstream endobj 166 0 obj <>stream To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Promoter Glenn Turner, who became a millionaire through self-motivation businesses, was sentenced with his business partner to seven years in prison Thursday for defrauding. The main portion of the building is wide and round, while the top features a design that is fort-like in nature. 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. Glenn W. Turner, 53 years old, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty. 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. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE 80+ Glenn Turner Houston, TX (Inner Loop) View Full Report Addresses Yoakum Blvd, Houston, TX Corporate shareholders began to prioritize quarterly profits over long-term results. I have remorse for these people that did not benefit by what we set out to do. L|B@9`CwX}LKC 748 as an example of pyramid schemes. [28], CEO and President Roland R. Nocera pleaded guilty to securities fraud, in the case United States v. Nocera, et al. 1974., May 20, 1974. In the Arizona case, Turner represented himself -- a stark change from the days in the early '70s when renowned defense attorney F. Lee Bailey represented him in his Koscot dealings. %PDF-1.7 % 0000003018 00000 n 0000002472 00000 n 0000031782 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. Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. The sentencing of Dare to be Great supersalesman Glenn Turner, convicted of operating an illegal pyramid scam in Arizona, has been delayed for a week. 0000006496 00000 n 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. 0000007782 00000 n 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). 0000002201 00000 n Glenn W Turner, who started in Network Marketing in the late 60s and you will be blown away by the income earnings that he shares from that time. 0000043655 00000 n This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 0000008424 00000 n This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 23:43. 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