[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". 0 0000032500 00000 n On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Koscot Interplanetary. Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. 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. 2/10/75, p. 38) and Bestline . The judge refused and the men were led away to jail by deputy sheriffs after they gave their wallets, watches and jewelry to friends in the courtroom. We dont trust the government, media or big business. That spirit is everywhere. 0000006933 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. ), it's too late to put the book down. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARYSeptember 1, 2021. 0000007360 00000 n %%EOF By Rudy ???trated. As Elizabeth Holmes gives way to Sam Bankman-Fried, who gives way to George Santos, its worth pondering why our society has embraced an ethos popularized by a huckster such as Turner. "Equal Credit Opportunity Act Amendments and Consumer Leasing Act-1975., Hearings, United States Congress. torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! v. Holiday Magic, Inc., et al., N.D. California, Civil Action No. The distributors could make thousands. Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates. 0000008799 00000 n Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. But what he is actually selling, he . But Turner seems to have genuinely convinced himself he was offering the little people a splendid opportunity. endstream endobj 166 0 obj <>stream 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. 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. After more than a decade of court cases, Turner was convicted in 1987 for running a Ponzi scheme. 0000000016 00000 n 0000031956 00000 n Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. 0 Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. 0000003297 00000 n 271 0 obj Turner, who was pale and appeared tired, and Rector, his former bodyguard, had no visible reaction to the sentences. 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.. 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. 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. 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. Lawyers for Turner and Rector asked Dougherty to let their clients remain free while they appealed their convictions. [17] Turner described it as one of the first "pyramid marketing" companies in America. [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. 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.. He subsequently bought exclusive rights for Middle East distribution of Holiday Magic cosmetics and formed his own company, Beauty Magic, in Beirut, Lebanon. Koscot was founded in 1967. Just before he was sentenced, Turner told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bernard Dougherty, "My intent has never been to hurt but to help. The good that I have done outweighs the bad. It didnt. 256 pages. High by today's standards but even more powerful based on the times. 271 0 obj During the eight-week trial, however, two former top Turner aides testified that Challenge officials knew their operation was illegal. Theres a difference between psyching yourself up and misrepresenting yourself, and the latter is where fake it has gone too far. 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. However, the focus of the company was more about selling distributorships than cosmetics. trailer 0000001769 00000 n Pyramid schemes are inherently unstable and eventually must collapse. %PDF-1.7 % 0000002201 00000 n "[1], Sales Dynamics was another program of instruction for pay available to Holiday Magic Distributors to help them in their business activities. 748 as an example of pyramid schemes. (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. hb```e`` /`"\}!5|Z1O(s@Tu4t5UL- M-\\mm||=C#cbC"R32S 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. 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). 124., July 6, 1977. Turner barely escaped jail in 1975 when a federal jury in Florida was unable to reach a verdict after a nine-month fraud trial. [28], Ben Gay, a high-level instructor at Leadership Dynamics, was President of Holiday Magic in the United States. The two men told Dougherty before sentencing that they never intended to break the law. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. GLENN W. TURNER ENTERPRISES, INC., a Florida corporation, et al., Defendants. Jurors found them innocent of 27 counts of securities violations involving Challenge Inc., a motivational company. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. uOf2v]IM{7\~CPWb=sVX\IQ2ec )^y&wM9t>5YO! 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. Box 1. Martha Stewart sparked headlines in 2005 when she fired a contestant on The Apprentice who embraced the phrase. [25] The Office of the State Attorney General in Maine, United States cites In re Holiday Magic, Inc., 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 Originally the organization distributed goods such as home-care products and cosmetics. [1] In 1971, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Koscot, charging restraint of trade. "[7] Turner, attorney F. Lee Bailey, and eight others were also indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges. "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. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge. [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. 0000007360 00000 n Two years later he founded Dare to be Great, a motivational program similar to the later Challenge. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [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. Illustrated. 0000006933 00000 n 0000003297 00000 n Holiday Magic was a multi-level marketing organization, founded in 1964, by William Penn Patrick (19301973) in the United States. Civ. 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. 0000031782 00000 n Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. 0000045154 00000 n The House was supposed to grow with population. DeMuro, RG. He was featured in an 11-page article in Life magazine in 1971,[8] and was reportedly worth $300 million at the time. endstream endobj 165 0 obj <>stream These levels (as in "multi-level marketing") could make money by getting commissions from recruiting other participants to work as salespeople, supervisors or directors, and getting commissions on orders of cosmetics from other lower level recruited participants. . <> Even then, he never stopped explaining. Bids on the Castle property will be advertised over the next few weeks to notify any other bidders of the pending sale. 0000041306 00000 n [1] To form the pyramids of success, many directors, larger numbers of supervisors, salespeople and still more customers were needed. DARE TO BE GREAT. [18] Clarke referred to the company as an "illegitimate" business. 0000045154 00000 n By the spring of 1969, Turner was living in a large home on Lake Maitland near Orlando Florida, and "had eight Cadillacs and a Rolls-Royce, three Learjets and a closetful of tailor-made suits and alligator shoes". Even as she spoke, the housing bubble riven with fraud committed (and invited) by banks, ratings agencies, mortgage brokers and appraisers was growing bigger. endobj Both stood with their hands folded behind their backs as Dougherty announced the prison terms. 58.95. that our program was a crime," he said. In re HOLIDAY MAGIC SECURITIES AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION., James J. 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. The election of Ronald Reagan marked the beginning of an era of worshiping wealth, one in which more and more people came to believe that anything that made money was by definition a success. 0000037159 00000 n Stewart was behind the societal curve. Two dwarfs would hop out and unroll a red carpet. In my business, theres just no faking it, Stewart said. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). 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. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. Glenn W. Turner, 53 years old, was sentenced along with Edward G. Rechtor by Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Dougherty. [28] The Mind Dynamics course was described as providing "a means of achieving personal success through the conscious use of the subconscious mind". [5], The State of California filed suit against Holiday Magic in December, 1972. Dougherty also ordered Turner and Rector to pay $44,000 each in fines to be distributed to victims. 0000037334 00000 n The Dream, a podcast about multi-level marketing, discussed Holiday Magic and William Penn Patrick. The purpose of this Note is to investigate the 0000005760 00000 n 0000008424 00000 n The company called Zolene was about to go out of business. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. v. Robert W. Warren et al. 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. Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Turner ran in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate election in Florida, 1974, but lost. 0000008799 00000 n 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. "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. [28] Holiday Magic distributors were invited, though not required, to attend the Leadership Dynamics Institute self-improvement sessions at a cost of $1000 each. 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. House Committee on Small Business, 1991. Investment of $5,000. What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. (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.). And we need to be less credulous and stop falling for the next shiny thing. Turner had a talent for making people believe in him. Turner and a partner, Edward Rector, 57, were sentenced to seven years in prison in Arizona in August on charges of operating a pyramid scheme there and defrauding investors through a self-motivational company called Challenge Inc. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. endobj Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses.[30]. 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. 0000001791 00000 n Participants could pay $2,000 to be a supervisor or $5,400 to be a director. But when the claim has little to no basis in reality, it will almost certainly lead to failure and, as Turner discovered, to oblivion. "I think the court's ruling today put the final period in the final chapter of the book on Glenn Turner.". 0000004119 00000 n Unsatisfied investors also filed lawsuits. [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. 0000023584 00000 n "They have for years.". 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. 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. 0000037159 00000 n startxref [1] It became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the 1970s.[2]. 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 W. Turner is now all but forgotten. In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. [1] Distributors for Holiday Magic, who took the course, have considered it as a Holiday Magic Business expense. Private investors also have claims against the property for $200,000 in tax certificates, under which they paid the taxes and earn 18 percent interest until the property is sold and the tax amounts are paid back to them.. Turner and his family havent paid property taxes since 1979, but investors bought tax certificates equal to the back taxes each year. Glenn W. Turner, a farmboy who built and lost a multimillion-dollar financial empire with his pyramid sales schemes, lost his freedom Thursday. In 1964, after a bankruptcy and several business failures, Patrick (age 33) was walking by a garage in San Rafael, California, and noted that fruit-scented cosmetics were being sold. Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. 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. [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. In August 1972, he was charged with "86 counts of sale of unregistered securities and failing to register as a dealer". But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. 0000003839 00000 n U.S. District Court documents in Orlando indicate there are dozens of other Turner creditors, but it is unlikely they will be paid from any proceeds from the Castles sale, officials said. He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses. L|B@9`CwX}LKC [1][5] Navarro described the training as having "overtones of strict military training techniques. And as Turner understood, making lots of money will get you almost anything, including an invitation to lecture at the Harvard Business School. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> In SEC v. Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc., 474 F.2d 476, 482 (9th Cir. We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. [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. Mr. Maxa cannot resist quoting H. L. Mencken's observation that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. PHOENIX, ARIZ. Glenn W. Turner, a farmboy who built and lost a multimillion-dollar financial empire with his pyramid sales schemes, lost his freedom Thursday. ", United States Congress. Turner, 53, created a $300 million empire in the 1970s by selling distributorships in his Dare to be Great and Koscot International companies. No surprise, trust is cratering. 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's Winter Park castle currently is for sale for $1.8 million. xref SAN DIEGOGlenn Arcaro of Los Angeles pleaded guilty today in federal court for his participation in a massive conspiracy involving BitConnect, a cryptocurrency investment scheme, which defrauded investors from the United States and abroad of over $2 billion. According to 2019 surveys done by the Pew Research Center, almost half of us say Americans are not as reliable as in the past. 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. [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. 0000003018 00000 n 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". Yes, the ethos can lead to success, as long as you actually have the goods and the skills. 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. See the article in its original context from. He was paroled in November but must be supervised by. 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. Extensive notes. 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. Government needs to return to enforcing meaningful financial regulation; politicians and entrepreneurs who deceive their supporters need to face consequences. 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. 0000032500 00000 n Our intent was to help people. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. Mr. Turner and Mr. Rechtor, who also received seven years, were. But the real bait was the right to sell the righttosell to other suckers on the principle of a chain letter. : 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. See the article in its original context from. 0000005276 00000 n 235 37 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. 0000010114 00000 n 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. 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. Corbins office won a civil case against Turner over Challenge in 1983, ordering him to pay $1.5 million in restitution and $1 million in penalties. . 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. Mr. Maxa, Washington Post reporter, describes this ripe chapter in the annals of Boobus Americanus with clarity and an eye for the juicy detail. Turner himself offers one cautionary tale. 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. Prosecutors said Challenge officials misled investors by telling them they would not have to put up their own money. Prosecutors said Rector and Turner also failed to warn investors that Challenge had been sued and was facing large judgments. The history of fake it till you make it offers a lesson here, if we want to heed it. 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. By Rudy Maxa. Those in the positions of Instructor General, Trainer General, and Senior General were required to take the training. All these characters in bright red polyester doubleknits, with rhinestone flag lapel pins, dashing around the country making people hum, MMMMMMMM MONEY!. "[23] One of the Holiday Magic Inc. cases was also cited by The University of Chicago Law Review[24] and the Columbia Law Review. Ward, et al. Lets fix that. 748 - IN THE MATTER OF HOLIDAY MAGIC, INC., ET AL. 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. 0000037334 00000 n "Our intent was to help people believe in themselves.". [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. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 0000023769 00000 n "Summary of Testimony and Findings and Conclusions Resulting from Hearings in New York on Drug Law. 0000023584 00000 n 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. 0000006135 00000 n 0000031956 00000 n Koscot Interplanetary was a company from Orlando, Florida, selling mink oil-based cosmetics and was started by Glenn W. Turner in 1967. 0000001036 00000 n He said neither man would be eligible for release from prison before serving at least two-thirds of the sentence. 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. ". 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. The premise of Koscot was that participants could sell cosmetics door-to-door or at parties. %PDF-1.6 % A list of over 350 print sources on paper chain letters and pyramid schemes. C-74-1067-LHB., No. 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. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. 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