Attorneys for the two said their convictions would be appealed and asked that they be freed on bond until their appeals are heard. Turner, who was pale and appeared tired, and Rector, his former bodyguard, had no visible reaction to the sentences. . 0000001660 00000 n [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. The Dream, a podcast about multi-level marketing, discussed Holiday Magic and William Penn Patrick. At the same time, the federal government became less likely to prosecute obvious malfeasance. ,'nuG>wP6T7:"K3'G9U 0000041306 00000 n "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. endobj 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. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. 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.. 0000003563 00000 n We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. ". v. Robert W. Warren et al. Turner had a talent for making people believe in him. Turner ran in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate election in Florida, 1974, but lost. Bids on the Castle property will be advertised over the next few weeks to notify any other bidders of the pending sale. 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. 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. . Glenn Turner's Koscot charges $2,000 for the right to distribute "kosmetics." Holiday Magic (Bus. Those in the positions of Instructor General, Trainer General, and Senior General were required to take the training. However, the focus of the company was more about selling distributorships than cosmetics. 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.". 0000004119 00000 n [28], Ben Gay, a high-level instructor at Leadership Dynamics, was President of Holiday Magic in the United States. Lotstein said 202 Arizona residents participated in the program. Jurors found them innocent of 27 counts of securities violations involving Challenge Inc., a motivational company. [28], CEO and President Roland R. Nocera pleaded guilty to securities fraud, in the case United States v. Nocera, et al. %%EOF 0000003018 00000 n But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates. 0 The book has its lighter moments. 0000002742 00000 n Ward, et al. But what he is actually selling, he . 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. 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 $100 million business empire. The House was supposed to grow with population. C-74-1067-LHB., No. He was paroled in November but must be supervised by. But Dougherty denied bond and ordered both men to begin serving their sentences immediately. Mr. Maxa, Washington Post reporter, describes this ripe chapter in the annals of Boobus Americanus with clarity and an eye for the juicy detail. During the eight-week trial, however, two former top Turner aides testified that Challenge officials knew their operation was illegal. Pyramid Schemes Versus Ponzi Schemes The labels Ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme are often used interchangeably to describe specific forms of investment fraud where sustainability depends on the influx of new "investors" to the scheme. 0000001791 00000 n Yes, Mencken would have loved it. PHOENIX, ARIZ. Glenn W. Turner, a farmboy who built and lost a multimillion-dollar financial empire with his pyramid sales schemes, lost his freedom Thursday. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> ={w5d[#"zM#h:.d\r,&4* 76I\@yH'H}T4idJq$nVsL(sXk TN4%8k;|PqK+I:p*K"&Z{Z;o;}X8z}r%. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. 0000007360 00000 n Lets fix that. 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 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. 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. 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. [2][vague] The organization was dissolved in 1974, subsequent to the death of Patrick in 1973. "Franchising in Hard Times: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives. 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. 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. 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. 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. ", United States Congress. 0000002472 00000 n endstream endobj 165 0 obj <>stream torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! 0000041122 00000 n "It is hard for me to believe . 271 0 obj 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. <> Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. USA vs Glenn W. Turner, Nash Publications, New York, 1976 Rudy Maxa . 0000008424 00000 n ", "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. No. 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. In 1967 Turner borrowed $5,000 to start his Koscot Interplanetary Inc., a cosmetics firm in which distributors could sell other distributorships for commissions. The good that I have done outweighs the bad. endstream endobj 166 0 obj <>stream But when the claim has little to no basis in reality, it will almost certainly lead to failure and, as Turner discovered, to oblivion. 0000001036 00000 n 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. 0000006496 00000 n 0000001036 00000 n Government needs to return to enforcing meaningful financial regulation; politicians and entrepreneurs who deceive their supporters need to face consequences. It all carne tumbling down eventually. 0000003839 00000 n Self-help culture took that to ludicrous places: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve, claimed wealth guru Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich.. 0000003563 00000 n "All you have to do is believe it."[7]. 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.. 11106 (1975). Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). But the real bait was the right to sell the righttosell to other suckers on the principle of a chain letter. . 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. High by today's standards but even more powerful based on the times. . ), it's too late to put the book down. 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. 0000041122 00000 n 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. "[1], Sales Dynamics was another program of instruction for pay available to Holiday Magic Distributors to help them in their business activities. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. For more information, visit the listing at bit.ly/2mgnmna. Our intent was to help people. 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. 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. Rector's only asset is his house, and his only income a $200-a-month military pension, the investigation found. (Free Speech issue - dismissed), Juice Plus AKA National Safety Associates, European Grouping of Marketing Professionals, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holiday_Magic&oldid=1140202664, Companies based in San Rafael, California, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles needing clarification, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from March 2009, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Holiday Magic, Inc. v. endobj Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. 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. According to 2019 surveys done by the Pew Research Center, almost half of us say Americans are not as reliable as in the past. 0000001769 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. 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 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. 0000002201 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? [1] It became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the 1970s.[2]. And we need to be less credulous and stop falling for the next shiny thing. A few of their supporters cried as the sentences were read. 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. If it can happen to Charles Colson, folks, you gotta believe. 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. [10] The FTC's decision on Koscot set a precedent for defining if a company is engaging in illegal pyramiding. .to various charitable organizations. Two dwarfs would hop out and unroll a red carpet. [7] (In 1972 he built a "$3.5 million white stone castle with a helicopter landing pad" on Bear Gulley Lake, also near Orlando. 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. [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. We dont trust the government, media or big business. United States District Court, D. Oregon. Turner, the son of a South Carolina sharecropper and a self-styled country boy, rose to fame in the early 1970s through inspirational speeches that promised great wealth if people bought distributorships in his operations. 0000031956 00000 n "Challenge had a positive effect on all of our lives," said one woman who was crying in the hallway outside the courtroom. 0000005760 00000 n [30] In popular culture [ edit] His sales rallies became legend. 748 - IN THE MATTER OF HOLIDAY MAGIC, INC., ET AL. 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. The company called Zolene was about to go out of business. 0000037159 00000 n Eventually, the truth comes out. 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. 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. 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. The guy at the top could make millions. What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. But faking it in matters of money is another matter entirely. 0000007782 00000 n Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. [7] He told reporters as he was led away to jail: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. He said neither man would be eligible for release from prison before serving at least two-thirds of the sentence. Just before he was sentenced, Turner told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bernard Dougherty, "My intent has never been to hurt but to help. He seems to have been equal parts P. T. Barnum, Horatio Alger, snake oil salesman and evangelist. Participants could pay $2,000 to be a supervisor or $5,400 to be a director. 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. Anyone can read what you share. trailer 0000005760 00000 n 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. In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. ", Nevertheless, Dougherty said, the men deserved prison terms because "some of these victims suffered great emotional and financial harm by your actions.". "Summary of Testimony and Findings and Conclusions Resulting from Hearings in New York on Drug Law. Senate. 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. Glenn Turner's Winter Park castle currently is for sale for $1.8 million. 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. And as Turner understood, making lots of money will get you almost anything, including an invitation to lecture at the Harvard Business School. 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. Morrow. [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. GLENN W. TURNER ENTERPRISES, INC., a Florida corporation, et al., Defendants. 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. 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. Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. 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." JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. Pyramid schemes are inherently unstable and eventually must collapse. 0000004278 00000 n Referring to Charles Ponzi, who earlier this century put together a huge investment swindle that still bears his name, Lotstein said, "I imagine there are still people that feel that Mr. Ponzi was doing good for the world. Dougherty said he had received "hundreds" of letters in support of Turner. In August 1972, he was charged with "86 counts of sale of unregistered securities and failing to register as a dealer". 0 PHOENIX Glenn W. Turner, creator of the "Dare to Be Great" motivational plan, surrendered to Arizona authorities today to face 126 counts of fraud and other charges after waiving extradition. deal). They drove new Cadillacs and wore alligator shoes. [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. 0000002472 00000 n 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. Martha Stewart sparked headlines in 2005 when she fired a contestant on The Apprentice who embraced the phrase. [22] According to the Duke Law Journal: "Illegality permeated every facet of the promotion of the Holiday Magic marketing program. The two men told Dougherty before sentencing that they never intended to break the law. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. Both stood with their hands folded behind their backs as Dougherty announced the prison terms. Since many of them were enmeshed as much by greed as by hope, one's sympathy is tempered. As we transitioned from a society that manufactured things to one whose products were intangible, reality was increasingly in the eye of the beholder or the pitchman. Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). 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? 0000003839 00000 n 0000010114 00000 n Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. 0000023769 00000 n Corporate shareholders began to prioritize quarterly profits over long-term results. 0000043655 00000 n Box 1. According to a presentence investigation, Turner, who has been living in North Carolina, is broke and has no assets or income. Today, fake it till you make it has come to represent the scrappy, optimistic mind-set of American hustle culture. 0000045154 00000 n In SEC v. Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc., 474 F.2d 476, 482 (9th Cir. Unfortunately, the multi-level cosmetic company became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the . If anybody was hurt by our program or suffered because of it, I am sure sorry, Rechtor said. As he was led off to jail, he told reporters: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> that our program was a crime," he said. One representative pyramid venture, Dare to be Great, Inc., is de-scribed in SEC v. Glenn W Turner Enterprises, Inc. 8 . One report has him convicted of running a pyramid scheme in Arizona in 1985 and released after five years in prison. 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. Yes, the ethos can lead to success, as long as you actually have the goods and the skills. The saying became so pervasive in Amway that it would be the title of a 1980s expos by Phil Kerns. 0000002742 00000 n Summary of this case from Great Western Bank & Trust v . 5616. 748 as an example of pyramid schemes. [11] 1974 hearings before the Congressional Oversight panel of the Federal Trade Commission described Holiday Magic as a "Multi-level marketer of cosmetics", that used an "unfair and deceptive pyramid distribution scheme". "The first time I ever heard those words from those men was in this courtroom," Rector said. @D[cnS: lRORRXtkLrr)==mFdQMmnM'tv6KM;J_O3 +F:C+4i[k}d Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. Some of the most famous pyramid schemes in U.S. history. 0000000016 00000 n Glenn W. Turner, 53 years old, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty. [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. 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. 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. Even as she spoke, the housing bubble riven with fraud committed (and invited) by banks, ratings agencies, mortgage brokers and appraisers was growing bigger. [7] As one news story put it: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Think about it: One person could sell 10 distributorships, and each of the 10 could sell 10 more, and so on. 0000009459 00000 n 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. I didn't take it seriously because I was running for . [28] The Mind Dynamics course was described as providing "a means of achieving personal success through the conscious use of the subconscious mind". 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. They were convicted last month on charges of conspiracy, fraud and illegal pyramid sales in connection with their Challenge Inc. motivational program. 0000010114 00000 n The distributors could make thousands. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. When a federal judge lumped together 1,000 of those lawsuits into a single class-action suit seeking nearly $1 billion, Turner went bankrupt. 1974., May 20, 1974. 235 37 0000007782 00000 n [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. L|B@9`CwX}LKC 0000000016 00000 n (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.). Turner packaged this dubious enterprise with a religious fervor that would make Billy Sunday look like the Archbishop of Canterbury. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/archives/dare-to-be-great-a-sincere-con-man.html. Theres a difference between psyching yourself up and misrepresenting yourself, and the latter is where fake it has gone too far. Turner's long gone from the 0000003018 00000 n There being no provision in either law or morality for fraud without intent, it's hard to figure out what that makes Glenn Turner. A nine-month trial ended in a hung jury. United States Senate election in Florida, 1974, "Meet the con man who sold America on 'fake it till you make it', "Dare to be Great, Inc! IT WOULD BE impossible to write a book about the sales empire of Glenn Turner without invoking H. L. 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