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. [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. 0000008799 00000 n %%EOF what would happen when these distributorships reached the saturation point, when there was no one left to buy a distributorship, and so many people selling cosmetics that it was impossible to recover the large investment from the small cosmetics commissions? Oaks pleaded guilty last year to one felony count of operating an illegal pyramid scheme and agreed to testify against Turner and Rechtor. Civ. Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. Attached to the side stands connected a lone, cylindrical tower that contains a stairwell on the inside. 256 pages. Turner had a talent for making people believe in him. ", Nevertheless, Dougherty said, the men deserved prison terms because "some of these victims suffered great emotional and financial harm by your actions.". To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Employing a pyramid selling scheme and an evangelical, downhome platform style, Turner cajoled thousands of ordinary folks into putting up varying amounts, in return for which they would sell Turner's beauty products. Holiday Magic was a multi-level marketing organization, founded in 1964, by William Penn Patrick (19301973) in the United States. [15] Larry Stephen Huff, another key individual in the company, served two years in a Federal Prison, for charges related to a Ponzi scam (unrelated to Holiday Magic).[21]. 0000001791 00000 n "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. "The first time I ever heard those words from those men was in this courtroom," Rector said. He first pushed cosmetics and later a motivation course called Dare to Be Great. 0000023584 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. v. Holiday Magic, Inc., et al., N.D. California, Civil Action No. [18] Clarke referred to the company as an "illegitimate" business. The distributors could make thousands. 0000045154 00000 n Just before sentencing, Rector told Dougherty that Challenge had done nothing wrong. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARYSeptember 1, 2021. 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.". The history of fake it till you make it offers a lesson here, if we want to heed it. The premise of Koscot was that participants could sell cosmetics door-to-door or at parties. Turner, 57, served nearly two-thirds of a seven-year term in Arizona for fleecing investors in a scheme for distributing motivational tapes. Prosecutors said Rector and Turner also failed to warn investors that Challenge had been sued and was facing large judgments. Unfortunately, the multi-level cosmetic company became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. "If anyone was hurt in our program, I am extremely sorry. United States District Court, D. Oregon. [30] In popular culture [ edit] I have remorse for these people that did not benefit by what we set out to do. endstream endobj 166 0 obj <>stream Turner, though, had hired a lawyer for his sentencing Thursday. 0000023584 00000 n But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. Under this type. 748 - IN THE MATTER OF HOLIDAY MAGIC, INC., ET AL. hb```e`` /`"\}!5|Z1O(s@Tu4t5UL- M-\\mm||=C#cbC"R32S 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". 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. 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. 124., July 6, 1977. His sales rallies became legend. Stewart was behind the societal curve. [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. 0000031956 00000 n USA vs Glenn W. Turner, Nash Publications, New York, 1976 Rudy Maxa . 0000006933 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.[30]. 0000002472 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. 0000037334 00000 n Glenn Turner's Koscot charges $2,000 for the right to distribute "kosmetics." Holiday Magic (Bus. 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. Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). 0000037159 00000 n Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. But it draws on older strains in American life, marrying psychological concepts on how to change human behavior with the positive-thinking self-help culture that might as well be Americas unofficial state religion. 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. It didnt. [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. 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. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> But when the claim has little to no basis in reality, it will almost certainly lead to failure and, as Turner discovered, to oblivion. 0000045154 00000 n After more than a decade of court cases, Turner was convicted in 1987 for running a Ponzi scheme. There being no provision in either law or morality for fraud without intent, it's hard to figure out what that makes Glenn Turner. "They come from preachers, lawyers, housewives, plumbers, carpenters," Dougherty said. 72-390. Turner's long gone from the 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. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. 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. 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. 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. Turner ran in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate election in Florida, 1974, but lost. 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. 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. He said neither man would be eligible for release from prison before serving at least two-thirds of the sentence. New York: William Morrow & Co. $8.95. 235 0 obj Participants could pay $2,000 to be a supervisor or $5,400 to be a director. 0000006135 00000 n By Rudy Maxa. Jurors found them innocent of 27 counts of securities violations involving Challenge Inc., a motivational company. . 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. "They have for years.". 0000000016 00000 n trailer Morrow. [28] The Mind Dynamics course was described as providing "a means of achieving personal success through the conscious use of the subconscious mind". One bought a cosmetics distributorship for $4,500 and became entitled to sell distributorships to others, pocketing a fat commission. ", United States Congress. 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. 0000004119 00000 n Charges were then dropped against Bailey. [1], In 1974, after almost 10 years in operation and tied to pyramid schemes and controversy, both Leadership Dynamics and Mind Dynamics ceased operations. But what made him "really rich" was reportedly Koscot Interplanetary[6] (Koscot stood for "Kosmetics for the Communities of Tomorrow"). 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. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. Lotstein said he doubted the money would ever be collected. This is a good little book about an earnest con artist who ripped off the American public for $75 million. Rector's only asset is his house, and his only income a $200-a-month military pension, the investigation found. Mr. Maxa cannot resist quoting H. L. Mencken's observation that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. 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. [5] Dougherty then passed sentence, despite receiving hundreds of letters in support of Turner. 0000041122 00000 n Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs. [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. "[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. 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. xref [3] 0000002201 00000 n Holiday Magic Inc. et al. 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. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. The purpose of this Note is to investigate the Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. : 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. They drove new Cadillacs and wore alligator shoes. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. 0000003297 00000 n The guy at the top could make millions. Some of the most famous pyramid schemes in U.S. history. Mencken, Mr. Maxa says, would have loved Glenn Turner as one of those colorful rogues who enliven the American scene, a sort of cross between Elmer Gantry and Charles Ponzi, whose name is to financial pyramids what Tutankhamen's is to the original. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. 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. 11106 (1975). 0000007782 00000 n What Turner really sold was hope, which is the stock in trade of others beside pyramid sales pushers. 0000003018 00000 n A few of their supporters cried as the sentences were read. And as Turner understood, making lots of money will get you almost anything, including an invitation to lecture at the Harvard Business School. 0000001769 00000 n But Dougherty denied bond and ordered both men to begin serving their sentences immediately. Rector said the men -- Douglas Beekman of Apopka and Richard Mailman of Altamonte Springs -- never voiced such a concern to him. He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses. Mr. Maxa has the newspaper reporter's habit of cramming in information wherever it will fit, whether apposite or no. In 1967 Turner borrowed $5,000 to start his Koscot Interplanetary Inc., a cosmetics firm in which distributors could sell other distributorships for commissions. 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". 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. <>stream [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. According to a presentence investigation, Turner, who has been living in North Carolina, is broke and has no assets or income. 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. trailer 0000001036 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. 6, 19, 24., Library of Congress. Donate In the lawsuit, Avon Products' claimed that "Holiday Magic employees distributed leaflets accusing Avon of goon squads, paying off The District attorney's office.."[7], In June 1973, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Holiday Magic,[8] charging Patrick with "bilking some 80,000 people out of more than $250 million through his Holiday Magic cosmetics and soap empire. Illustrated. 0000037159 00000 n 1. By Rudy ???trated. 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.. Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. 0000003563 00000 n 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. 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. startxref 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. 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. 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. 0000001036 00000 n 0000007360 00000 n [2][vague] The organization was dissolved in 1974, subsequent to the death of Patrick in 1973. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. 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. 0000001791 00000 n "Our intent was to help people believe in themselves.". 0000009459 00000 n No surprise, trust is cratering. 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. 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. What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. 0000043655 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. 0000003839 00000 n The IRS, which had a $15 million claim, has been awarded a judgment of $9.275 million, but appraisals put the value of the Turner property at $1 million to $2 million. torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! [1][5] Navarro described the training as having "overtones of strict military training techniques. "Franchising in Hard Times: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives. 0 According to 2019 surveys done by the Pew Research Center, almost half of us say Americans are not as reliable as in the past. ={w5d[#"zM#h:.d\r,&4* 76I\@yH'H}T4idJq$nVsL(sXk TN4%8k;|PqK+I:p*K"&Z{Z;o;}X8z}r%. Traditionally, businesses have had to state their returns using metrics that can only be faked by lying. 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 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. Ward, et al. Some "schemes" are specifically developed to sidestep Pyramid Scheme legislation by offering a "product" or "service". However from a technical perspective, there are differences in the way the two types of schemes operate. 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. Targets for citations in Chain Letter Evolution. 0000005276 00000 n 1974., May 20, 1974. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE 80+ Glenn Turner Houston, TX (Inner Loop) View Full Report Addresses Yoakum Blvd, Houston, TX One representative pyramid venture, Dare to be Great, Inc., is de-scribed in SEC v. Glenn W Turner Enterprises, Inc. 8 . But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. Yes, the ethos can lead to success, as long as you actually have the goods and the skills. But faking it in matters of money is another matter entirely. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. 0000006496 00000 n vlyiJ)pd*n\[PN>8Yl^1cyO"`CC\=bu3hB High by today's standards but even more powerful based on the times. In re HOLIDAY MAGIC SECURITIES AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION., James J. [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. As he was led off to jail, he told reporters: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. %PDF-1.6 % (Javice has denied the banks claims.) The two men told Dougherty before sentencing that they never intended to break the law. 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.. 0000023769 00000 n The main portion of the building is wide and round, while the top features a design that is fort-like in nature. [1] Distributors for Holiday Magic, who took the course, have considered it as a Holiday Magic Business expense. . 58.95. 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. %%EOF Company distributors were encouraged to recruit other distributors in a multilevel marketing structure, which was later characterized as a pyramid scheme. Turner, 53, created a $300 million empire in the 1970s by selling distributorships in his Dare to be Great and Koscot International companies. A nine-month trial ended in a hung jury. deal). We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. Turner, Rechtor and a third man, Alan K. Oaks, were accused of defrauding Arizona residents who were promised incomes of $1,000 to $3,000 a month if they invested $5,000 to become sales people for Challenge Inc. 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