"I think the court's ruling today put the final period in the final chapter of the book on Glenn Turner.". 0000009459 00000 n https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/archives/dare-to-be-great-a-sincere-con-man.html. Pyramid schemes are inherently unstable and eventually must collapse. %PDF-1.6 % .to various charitable organizations. [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. 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. 0000003297 00000 n 0000001036 00000 n 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. The House was supposed to grow with population. %%EOF 0000004278 00000 n Rector's only asset is his house, and his only income a $200-a-month military pension, the investigation found. (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.). 0000003563 00000 n 0000023584 00000 n At the meeting Turner's proteges would run to the stage in their flashy suits and fancy shoes, with $100 or even $1,000 bills pinned to their lapels. Senate. 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. 0 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. And as Turner understood, making lots of money will get you almost anything, including an invitation to lecture at the Harvard Business School. [9] "The end began in October 1969, when 14 Koscot distributors in Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana sued Turner for failing to pay promised dividends. Just before he was sentenced, Turner told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bernard Dougherty, "My intent has never been to hurt but to help. 0000004119 00000 n A few of their supporters cried as the sentences were read. In re HOLIDAY MAGIC SECURITIES AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION., James J. 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. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Company distributors were encouraged to recruit other distributors in a multilevel marketing structure, which was later characterized as a pyramid scheme. 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. See the article in its original context from. 0000001036 00000 n In SEC v. Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc., 474 F.2d 476, 482 (9th Cir. 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. 0000005760 00000 n "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. Dougherty said he had received "hundreds" of letters in support of Turner. 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. Since many of them were enmeshed as much by greed as by hope, one's sympathy is tempered. 0000037334 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". . 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. Rector said the men -- Douglas Beekman of Apopka and Richard Mailman of Altamonte Springs -- never voiced such a concern to him. [10] The FTC's decision on Koscot set a precedent for defining if a company is engaging in illegal pyramiding. Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). 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 two men told Dougherty before sentencing that they never intended to break the law. 0000041122 00000 n . "If anyone was hurt in our program, I am extremely sorry. 124., July 6, 1977. 2(a) OF THE CLAYTON ACT Docket 8834 (1974), MLM Law - Lawyer Grimes & Reese PLLC - Attorney Specializing in Multilevel Marketing - Marshall v. Holiday Magic, Inc. (1977) 550 F.2d 1173, Door to Door Selling, Pyramid Selling, Multilevel Marketing, "L.A. Con Artist Behind Alleged Electricity Scam: Pyramid scheme linked to coming deregulation", "First Amendment Protection for Commercial Advertising: The New Constitutional Doctrine", "The Chaos of Multilevel Marketing and Pyramid Sales Laws: A Federal Remedy", In Re Koscot Interplanetary Inc., 86 F.T.C. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. Turner's long gone from the Turner himself offers one cautionary tale. According to 2019 surveys done by the Pew Research Center, almost half of us say Americans are not as reliable as in the past. "The Role of Small Business in Franchising, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Minority Small Business. For more information, visit the listing at bit.ly/2mgnmna. 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. But when the claim has little to no basis in reality, it will almost certainly lead to failure and, as Turner discovered, to oblivion. Investment of $5,000. Prosecutors said Challenge officials misled investors by telling them they would not have to put up their own money. 0000007360 00000 n Summary of this case from Great Western Bank & Trust v . <> They drove new Cadillacs and wore alligator shoes. 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. Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. [5][29], William Penn Patrick bought Mind Dynamics in 1970. the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. [5] Lawyers for Turner and Rector asked Dougherty to let their clients remain free while they appealed their convictions. deal). 0000031956 00000 n A nine-month trial ended in a hung jury. Both stood with their hands folded behind their backs as Dougherty announced the prison terms. Civ. 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. 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. <>stream 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.. 0000041306 00000 n Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates. House Committee on Small Business, 1991. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 2/10/75, p. 38) and Bestline . High by today's standards but even more powerful based on the times. 0000001769 00000 n No surprise, trust is cratering. 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. His sales rallies became legend. 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. 0000007360 00000 n 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). The companies collapsed in 1973 under lawsuits filed by investors and investigations by state and federal agencies. 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. 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. Charges were then dropped against Bailey. Two years later he founded Dare to be Great, a motivational program similar to the later Challenge. Lotstein acknowledged that not all of the Challenge "victims" were pleased that Turner was prosecuted. Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. Just before sentencing, Rector told Dougherty that Challenge had done nothing wrong. 0000043655 00000 n Some "schemes" are specifically developed to sidestep Pyramid Scheme legislation by offering a "product" or "service". 0 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. New York: William Morrow & Co. $8.95. Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. [16] Katz's Everybody's Business: An Almanac also referred to Holiday Magic as a "pyramid sales organization". Well, it was never really worth all that, and when blizzard of Federal and state charges of fraud, securities irregularity and other actions drove him nearly into bankruptcy, he ended up selling one of his companies for $15,000. 6, 19, 24., Library of Congress. 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. He seems to have been equal parts P. T. Barnum, Horatio Alger, snake oil salesman and evangelist. Under this type. See the article in its original context from. [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. 0000006496 00000 n Mr. Turner and Mr. Rechtor, who also received seven years, were. It all carne tumbling down eventually. 0000000016 00000 n 1974., May 20, 1974. 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. In a fitting finale, Turner, stopped for good and all, is saved by a showy evangelist from New Orleans. "They come from preachers, lawyers, housewives, plumbers, carpenters," Dougherty said. 0000031782 00000 n 0000004119 00000 n According to a presentence investigation, Turner, who has been living in North Carolina, is broke and has no assets or income. 0000003018 00000 n 0000006135 00000 n 84 F.T.C. torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! Stewart was behind the societal curve. What Turner really sold was hope, which is the stock in trade of others beside pyramid sales pushers. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. 0000006933 00000 n 271 0 obj In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. Even as Turner attracted increasingly negative attention in 1972, he was arrested on 86 counts of violating securities laws the phrase gained popularity in a more earnest context within Alcoholics Anonymous. Dougherty then passed sentence, despite receiving hundreds of letters in support of Turner. [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]. 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. Lets fix that. 0000031782 00000 n They were convicted last month on charges of conspiracy, fraud and illegal pyramid sales in connection with their Challenge Inc. motivational program. 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. Government needs to return to enforcing meaningful financial regulation; politicians and entrepreneurs who deceive their supporters need to face consequences. Koscot was founded in 1967. 0000007782 00000 n startxref 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 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. 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. I didn't take it seriously because I was running for . "Our intent was to help people believe in themselves.". 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. ,'nuG>wP6T7:"K3'G9U Turner had a talent for making people believe in him. /b+;*R2VL5 WC^ ;_>[AM "su`/d_w$3qhTGS;#m!bytBefF~s*GB9z\eBUK,nrEYXn u.$leJrk5@ One report has him convicted of running a pyramid scheme in Arizona in 1985 and released after five years in prison. 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. Attached to the side stands connected a lone, cylindrical tower that contains a stairwell on the inside. 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. [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. 0000001769 00000 n Morrow. He first pushed cosmetics and later a motivation course called Dare to Be Great. 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. Prosecutors said Rector and Turner also failed to warn investors that Challenge had been sued and was facing large judgments. Holiday Magic was a multi-level marketing organization, founded in 1964, by William Penn Patrick (19301973) in the United States. 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. We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. [12] The indictment said that Bailey had appeared in a film made for Turner's organization and had appeared with Turner at several rallies. 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 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. [1], In 1974, after almost 10 years in operation and tied to pyramid schemes and controversy, both Leadership Dynamics and Mind Dynamics ceased operations. This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 23:43. 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. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Martha Stewart sparked headlines in 2005 when she fired a contestant on The Apprentice who embraced the phrase. But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. "Summary of Testimony and Findings and Conclusions Resulting from Hearings in New York on Drug Law. 0000041122 00000 n The saying became so pervasive in Amway that it would be the title of a 1980s expos by Phil Kerns. [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. 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.. It's easy and secure. [1] In 1971, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Koscot, charging restraint of trade. 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. I have remorse for these people that did not benefit by what we set out to do. 0000003018 00000 n That spirit is everywhere. 235 37 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. trailer ", Dougherty said he also took into account that Turner "has on a consistent basis and a generous basis contributed large sums of money . Illustrated. 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. 0000010114 00000 n 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. Turner and his best. Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. However from a technical perspective, there are differences in the way the two types of schemes operate. 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? Dougherty also ordered Turner and Rector to pay $44,000 each in fines to be distributed to victims. 0000002201 00000 n This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. hb```e`` /`"\}!5|Z1O(s@Tu4t5UL- M-\\mm||=C#cbC"R32S 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 0000008424 00000 n Extensive notes. xref (unrelated to Holiday Magic). 11106 (1975). ", "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. 256 pp. But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. 1. The main portion of the building is wide and round, while the top features a design that is fort-like in nature. 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. But Dougherty denied bond and ordered both men to begin serving their sentences immediately. 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