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. 72-390. 0000009459 00000 n Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. 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. 0000002201 00000 n Maricopa County Superior Court Judge. 0000010114 00000 n Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. <> /b+;*R2VL5 WC^ ;_>[AM "su`/d_w$3qhTGS;#m!bytBefF~s*GB9z\eBUK,nrEYXn u.$leJrk5@ Mr. Maxa has the newspaper reporter's habit of cramming in information wherever it will fit, whether apposite or no. 0000006933 00000 n Yes, the ethos can lead to success, as long as you actually have the goods and the skills. 0000041122 00000 n [10] The FTC's decision on Koscot set a precedent for defining if a company is engaging in illegal pyramiding. Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. 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. "Our intent was to help people believe in themselves.". endobj 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. 0000023584 00000 n 0000007360 00000 n ), it's too late to put the book down. 0000002742 00000 n This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. "All you have to do is believe it."[7]. 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). GLENN W. TURNER ENTERPRISES, INC., a Florida corporation, et al., Defendants. Those in the positions of Instructor General, Trainer General, and Senior General were required to take the training. 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. 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". We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. Turner barely escaped jail in 1975 when a federal jury in Florida was unable to reach a verdict after a nine-month fraud trial. 0000003018 00000 n The company called Zolene was about to go out of business. <>stream House Committee on Small Business, 1991. We dont trust the government, media or big business. 0000041306 00000 n He seems to have been equal parts P. T. Barnum, Horatio Alger, snake oil salesman and evangelist. Lotstein said 202 Arizona residents participated in the program. [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. [1], Pyramid schemes being illegal, Koscot became involved in substantial litigation from government agencies and Koscot's customers. [28] The Mind Dynamics course was described as providing "a means of achieving personal success through the conscious use of the subconscious mind". Corporate shareholders began to prioritize quarterly profits over long-term results. "It is hard for me to believe . 235 0 obj 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. 0000006933 00000 n Turner, 53, created a $300 million empire in the 1970s by selling distributorships in his Dare to be Great and Koscot International companies. 0000032500 00000 n Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. 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 Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. 0000004799 00000 n uOf2v]IM{7\~CPWb=sVX\IQ2ec )^y&wM9t>5YO! 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. [13], The company was cited by the United States House of Representatives in a 1975 hearing[14] as an example of consumer fraud, again in 1977,[15] and in 1991, in a hearing by the House Committee on Small Business. xref [30] In popular culture [ edit] Attorneys for the two said their convictions would be appealed and asked that they be freed on bond until their appeals are heard. 0000041122 00000 n startxref In SEC v. Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc., 474 F.2d 476, 482 (9th Cir. 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. Koscot was founded in 1967. 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? Two dwarfs would hop out and unroll a red carpet. High by today's standards but even more powerful based on the times. In 1975, Turner pleaded guilty to a single charge of violating securities laws and was given probation. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARYSeptember 1, 2021. In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. 0000008424 00000 n that our program was a crime," he said. 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. 0000004278 00000 n 0000005760 00000 n The guy at the top could make millions. . Turner and his best. 235 0 obj [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. By Rudy ???trated. Glenn Turner's Koscot charges $2,000 for the right to distribute "kosmetics." Holiday Magic (Bus. [2][vague] The organization was dissolved in 1974, subsequent to the death of Patrick in 1973. C-74-1067-LHB., No. 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. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). 0000009459 00000 n 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! As Mr, Maxa notes, Americans have always had a weakness for successful rogues. [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. 0000001660 00000 n Lotstein said he doubted the money would ever be collected. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. 0000001036 00000 n Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs. 0000002472 00000 n In a fitting finale, Turner, stopped for good and all, is saved by a showy evangelist from New Orleans. 5616. He first pushed cosmetics and later a motivation course called Dare to Be Great. [1][5] Navarro described the training as having "overtones of strict military training techniques. "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. See the article in its original context from. But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. 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. But the real bait was the right to sell the righttosell to other suckers on the principle of a chain letter. What Turner really sold was hope, which is the stock in trade of others beside pyramid sales pushers. [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". 256 pages. [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". What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. (Javice has denied the banks claims.) endstream endobj 166 0 obj <>stream . Turner had a talent for making people believe in him. "If anyone was hurt in our program, I am extremely sorry. Mr. Turner's business, osten sibly, is cosmetics, the keystone product in a bizarre conglom erate called Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc. 0000005276 00000 n [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. 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. 0000002472 00000 n torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! It all carne tumbling down eventually. @D[cnS: lRORRXtkLrr)==mFdQMmnM'tv6KM;J_O3 +F:C+4i[k}d Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. The main portion of the building is wide and round, while the top features a design that is fort-like in nature. It didnt. [28] Holiday Magic distributors were invited, though not required, to attend the Leadership Dynamics Institute self-improvement sessions at a cost of $1000 each. Lotstein acknowledged that not all of the Challenge "victims" were pleased that Turner was prosecuted. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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 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. 0000001660 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. [5][29], William Penn Patrick bought Mind Dynamics in 1970. 0000031782 00000 n 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]. 0000037159 00000 n 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. Just before he was sentenced, Turner told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bernard Dougherty, "My intent has never been to hurt but to help. Dougherty also ordered Turner and Rector to pay $44,000 each in fines to be distributed to victims. (unrelated to Holiday Magic). Glenn W. Turner, who was frequently described himself as a harelipped sharecropper's son (leaving some doubt as to which of them was afflicted), built an ephemeral fortune on a pyramid selling scheme in the late 1960's and early 70's. 0000005760 00000 n Pyramid schemes are inherently unstable and eventually must collapse. One representative pyramid venture, Dare to be Great, Inc., is de-scribed in SEC v. Glenn W Turner Enterprises, Inc. 8 . ", Nevertheless, Dougherty said, the men deserved prison terms because "some of these victims suffered great emotional and financial harm by your actions.". .to various charitable organizations. xref 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. See the article in its original context from. [3], The company was termed as part of the "big three" scams, in a 1974 United States Senate hearing before the Consumers of the Committee on Commerce that dealt with pyramid sales. 0000001791 00000 n 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. 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. 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. vlyiJ)pd*n\[PN>8Yl^1cyO"`CC\=bu3hB 58.95. trailer 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. By Rudy Maxa. Unsatisfied investors also filed lawsuits. <> 0000010114 00000 n deal). ", United States Congress. "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. 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. 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. Rector's only asset is his house, and his only income a $200-a-month military pension, the investigation found. Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. 0000037334 00000 n [1] It became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the 1970s.[2]. [7] (In 1972 he built a "$3.5 million white stone castle with a helicopter landing pad" on Bear Gulley Lake, also near Orlando. According to a presentence investigation, Turner, who has been living in North Carolina, is broke and has no assets or income. 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. 0000023769 00000 n But the notion that you can fake it until you make it began to spread through multi-level marketing efforts such as Turners, where studies show few earn a profit and deception is rife. 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. 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. "They have for years.". In re HOLIDAY MAGIC SECURITIES AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION., James J. 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.". He was featured in an 11-page article in Life magazine in 1971,[8] and was reportedly worth $300 million at the time. Summary of this case from Great Western Bank & Trust v . "Franchising in Hard Times: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives. One report has him convicted of running a pyramid scheme in Arizona in 1985 and released after five years in prison. "And so can you," they would tell the crowd. When a federal judge lumped together 1,000 of those lawsuits into a single class-action suit seeking nearly $1 billion, Turner went bankrupt. The Arizona case marked the first felony conviction for Turner, who built a fortune around his Orlando-based pyramid sales 20 years ago. 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. There, it appeared as a way for people in recovery to project themselves forward into a more sober future. The purpose of this Note is to investigate the the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. [12] The indictment said that Bailey had appeared in a film made for Turner's organization and had appeared with Turner at several rallies. 0000001791 00000 n 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. 0000004119 00000 n Company distributors were encouraged to recruit other distributors in a multilevel marketing structure, which was later characterized as a pyramid scheme. A few of their supporters cried as the sentences were read. 6, 19, 24., Library of Congress. ", Dougherty said he also took into account that Turner "has on a consistent basis and a generous basis contributed large sums of money . "They come from preachers, lawyers, housewives, plumbers, carpenters," Dougherty said. 0000037159 00000 n We need a reset, and to find a way to once again prioritize and reward diligent, honest effort over faux success. Some of the most famous pyramid schemes in U.S. history. 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 748 - IN THE MATTER OF HOLIDAY MAGIC, INC., ET AL. [18] Clarke referred to the company as an "illegitimate" business. ,'nuG>wP6T7:"K3'G9U He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses.[30]. Stewart was behind the societal curve. United States House of Representatives. 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