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? 6, 19, 24., Library of Congress. 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? [1] To form the pyramids of success, many directors, larger numbers of supervisors, salespeople and still more customers were needed. [10] The FTC's decision on Koscot set a precedent for defining if a company is engaging in illegal pyramiding. The distributors could make thousands. 0000003563 00000 n "All you have to do is believe it."[7]. 124., July 6, 1977. 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. 256 pages. [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. [28], Ben Gay, a high-level instructor at Leadership Dynamics, was President of Holiday Magic in the United States. endstream endobj 166 0 obj <>stream 84 F.T.C. ", United States Congress, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, 1977, P.53. 0 "If anyone was hurt in our program, I am extremely sorry. Corporate shareholders began to prioritize quarterly profits over long-term results. 0000041306 00000 n Annotated bibliography on chain letters and pyramid schemes. 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. Glenn Turner's Winter Park castle currently is for sale for $1.8 million. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/archives/dare-to-be-great-a-sincere-con-man.html. 0000023584 00000 n Some "schemes" are specifically developed to sidestep Pyramid Scheme legislation by offering a "product" or "service". United States District Court, D. Oregon. Its backed by no government, is all but impossible to use and serves no legal need. "They conspired to get Mr. Turner," said another woman. Mr. Turner and Mr. Rechtor, who also received seven years, were. Koscot Interplanetary. endobj Attached to the side stands connected a lone, cylindrical tower that contains a stairwell on the inside. Dougherty said he had received "hundreds" of letters in support of Turner. What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. 0000008799 00000 n Theres a difference between psyching yourself up and misrepresenting yourself, and the latter is where fake it has gone too far. 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. [6], In February 1973, Holiday Magic was sued for calumny by Avon Products. The company had been investigated by the Market Court of Sweden,[3] United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the State of California. 5616. . No surprise, trust is cratering. 0000031956 00000 n [1], In 1974, after almost 10 years in operation and tied to pyramid schemes and controversy, both Leadership Dynamics and Mind Dynamics ceased operations. Lotstein said 202 Arizona residents participated in the program. 235 0 obj 0000001660 00000 n [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. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> [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. 0000002472 00000 n hb```e`` /`"\}!5|Z1O(s@Tu4t5UL- M-\\mm||=C#cbC"R32S The purpose of this Note is to investigate the One report has him convicted of running a pyramid scheme in Arizona in 1985 and released after five years in prison. 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], Sales Dynamics was another program of instruction for pay available to Holiday Magic Distributors to help them in their business activities. "Franchising in Hard Times: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 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. 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. Extensive notes. ", United States Congress. [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". 0000006135 00000 n But what he is actually selling, he . There, it appeared as a way for people in recovery to project themselves forward into a more sober future. endstream endobj 165 0 obj <>stream 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. deal). In a fitting finale, Turner, stopped for good and all, is saved by a showy evangelist from New Orleans. Koscot was founded in 1967. ", Nevertheless, Dougherty said, the men deserved prison terms because "some of these victims suffered great emotional and financial harm by your actions.". 0000006933 00000 n 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 premise of Koscot was that participants could sell cosmetics door-to-door or at parties. ", United States Congress. One representative pyramid venture, Dare to be Great, Inc., is de-scribed in SEC v. Glenn W Turner Enterprises, Inc. 8 . the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. 0000023769 00000 n [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. <>stream We need a reset, and to find a way to once again prioritize and reward diligent, honest effort over faux success. In my business, theres just no faking it, Stewart said. 0000003839 00000 n He said neither man would be eligible for release from prison before serving at least two-thirds of the sentence. 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. Senate. 0000001791 00000 n 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. 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. But that came later. . NEWS RELEASE SUMMARYSeptember 1, 2021. 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. 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. Stewart was behind the societal curve. "Pyramid Sales: Hearing Before the Subcommittee for Consumers of the Committee on Commerce, United States Congress", 1974, United States Congress, Pp. 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. 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. : A Case Study of Pyramid Sales Plan Regulation", "Glenn Turner, Empire Toppled, Trying Again to Sell Motivation", "Glenn Turner -- Out Of Luck; Fraud Sentencing May Be His Day Of Reckoning", "Koscot Cosmetics Accused Of Illegal Business Actions", "Koscot and Turner Cited in Complaint Filed by the S.E.C. DeMuro, RG. The House was supposed to grow with population. But what made him "really rich" was reportedly Koscot Interplanetary[6] (Koscot stood for "Kosmetics for the Communities of Tomorrow"). 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. 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. Summary of this case from Great Western Bank & Trust v . Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. 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. 1974., May 20, 1974. 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". Maricopa County Superior Court Judge. [1] Distributors for Holiday Magic, who took the course, have considered it as a Holiday Magic Business expense. See the article in its original context from. 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. Those in the positions of Instructor General, Trainer General, and Senior General were required to take the training. 0000008424 00000 n (Javice has denied the banks claims.) However from a technical perspective, there are differences in the way the two types of schemes operate. (unrelated to Holiday Magic). The book has its lighter moments. 0000001660 00000 n [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. 0000032500 00000 n "And so can you," they would tell the crowd. A few of their supporters cried as the sentences were read. In 1967 Turner borrowed $5,000 to start his Koscot Interplanetary Inc., a cosmetics firm in which distributors could sell other distributorships for commissions. <>stream 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. "It is hard for me to believe . . By the time one arrives at the scene with the Washington lawyers who helped keep Dita Beard under wraps and the description of an old O.S.S. 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. 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. USA vs Glenn W. Turner, Nash Publications, New York, 1976 Rudy Maxa . Turner, 57, served nearly two-thirds of a seven-year term in Arizona for fleecing investors in a scheme for distributing motivational tapes. Holiday Magic Inc. et al. Turner and his best. 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.. A technicality of the law is what got me.[1], Turner passed away in his home in Lake Mary, Florida, on 8 January 2020[13] with a much lower profile than during the peak of his success.[14]. 0000004119 00000 n Turner himself offers one cautionary tale. Just before sentencing, Rector told Dougherty that Challenge had done nothing wrong. As he was led off to jail, he told reporters: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. startxref Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates. Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. 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. %PDF-1.7 % 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. By Rudy ???trated. 256 pp. 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. 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. trailer 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. But Turner seems to have genuinely convinced himself he was offering the little people a splendid opportunity. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). Even then, he never stopped explaining. [30] In popular culture [ edit] Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. 0000032500 00000 n Pyramid Schemes Versus Ponzi Schemes The labels Ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme are often used interchangeably to describe specific forms of investment fraud where sustainability depends on the influx of new "investors" to the scheme. "I think the court's ruling today put the final period in the final chapter of the book on Glenn Turner.". 0000005276 00000 n 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. There being no provision in either law or morality for fraud without intent, it's hard to figure out what that makes Glenn Turner. Lawyers for Turner and Rector asked Dougherty to let their clients remain free while they appealed their convictions. <> 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. In re HOLIDAY MAGIC SECURITIES AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION., James J. 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. 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. And we need to be less credulous and stop falling for the next shiny thing. 0000010114 00000 n 0000004799 00000 n He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses. Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. 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. hb```e`` /`"\}!5|Z1O(s@Tu4t5UL- M-\\mm||=C#cbC"R32S 0000003839 00000 n Within a few years Turner's enterprises had made an estimated $300 million. [28] Holiday Magic distributors were invited, though not required, to attend the Leadership Dynamics Institute self-improvement sessions at a cost of $1000 each. Rector's only asset is his house, and his only income a $200-a-month military pension, the investigation found. The main portion of the building is wide and round, while the top features a design that is fort-like in nature. He was featured in an 11-page article in Life magazine in 1971,[8] and was reportedly worth $300 million at the time. 235 0 obj 0000007360 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. 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. 0000031956 00000 n 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. [5] Though he claimed Leadership Dynamics was a separate company, "..in no way related to Holiday Magic, Inc.", Gene Church pointed out many inconsistencies in this statement, in his book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled. 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. [7] He told reporters as he was led away to jail: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. 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. He first pushed cosmetics and later a motivation course called Dare to Be Great. Turner, who was pale and appeared tired, and Rector, his former bodyguard, had no visible reaction to the sentences. The Dream, a podcast about multi-level marketing, discussed Holiday Magic and William Penn Patrick. 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. 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. 0000007782 00000 n "Summary of Testimony and Findings and Conclusions Resulting from Hearings in New York on Drug Law. 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. Box 1. "[7] Turner, attorney F. Lee Bailey, and eight others were also indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges. [12] The indictment said that Bailey had appeared in a film made for Turner's organization and had appeared with Turner at several rallies. 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. 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. 0000045154 00000 n When newly minted salespeople found it impossible to make a go of it, they were told to fake it until you make it, by wearing expensive clothes and waving around $100 bills to lure in others, a disillusioned Oregon recruit testified in court in 1972. The government says Turner owes tens of millions of dollars in taxes and judgments, which have hopelessly tangled the ownership of his partially completed castle on a lake in south Seminole County. He was paroled in November but must be supervised by. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Turner would emerge under a banner reading "Dare to Be Great" and vacuum up money through a pyramid marketing scheme based on selling motivational tapes containing the secret of getting rich. trailer Jurors found them innocent of 27 counts of securities violations involving Challenge Inc., a motivational company. Civ. [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. 271 0 obj A technicality of the law is what got me., But Barnett Lotstein, an assistant state attorney general who helped prosecute the case, said the sentences satisfied the interest of justice.. Turner, 53, created a $300 million empire in the 1970s by selling distributorships in his Dare to be Great and Koscot International companies. According to a presentence investigation, Turner, who has been living in North Carolina, is broke and has no assets or income. [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. Glenn W. Turner, 53 years old, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty. .to various charitable organizations. Martha Stewart sparked headlines in 2005 when she fired a contestant on The Apprentice who embraced the phrase. [5] We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. The history of fake it till you make it offers a lesson here, if we want to heed it. 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. Mailman and Beekman, who pleaded guilty to one count each of violating pyramid laws, will be sentenced next month. 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. Under this type. "[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. 0000010114 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. 1. 235 37 . Eventually, the truth comes out. "The first time I ever heard those words from those men was in this courtroom," Rector said. But when the claim has little to no basis in reality, it will almost certainly lead to failure and, as Turner discovered, to oblivion. <> The companies collapsed in 1973 under lawsuits filed by investors and investigations by state and federal agencies. 0000001036 00000 n Turner, the son of a sharecropper, told people they. . I have remorse for these people that did not benefit by what we set out to do. 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. 0000002201 00000 n Turner had a talent for making people believe in him. 11106 (1975). 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