0000003018 00000 n NEWS RELEASE SUMMARYSeptember 1, 2021. He was paroled in November but must be supervised by. 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. 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. [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. 1975, P. 304., Hearings on S. 483, 1900, 1927, and 1961, and H.R. 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. United States House of Representatives. But as Turners saga shows, theres a dark side baked into the fake it mentality: the fakers who attempt to win success through fraud, then never make good on their promises. Pyramid schemes are inherently unstable and eventually must collapse. 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. "They conspired to get Mr. Turner," said another woman. 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. hb```e`` /`"\}!5|Z1O(s@Tu4t5UL- M-\\mm||=C#cbC"R32S Both stood with their hands folded behind their backs as Dougherty announced the prison terms. startxref 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. [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. 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. 0000007782 00000 n (unrelated to Holiday Magic). TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. An interesting man, Glenn Turner, and Rudy Maxa, a Washington Post reporter, has an interesting problemwhat do you do with a con man who doesn't know he's a con man? But that came later. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. Illustrated. 0000002201 00000 n "Challenge had a positive effect on all of our lives," said one woman who was crying in the hallway outside the courtroom. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. Ward, et al. the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. 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. (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.). 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. But the real bait was the right to sell the righttosell to other suckers on the principle of a chain letter. [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. 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.". ), it's too late to put the book down. ", United States Congress, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, 1977, P.53. 0000045154 00000 n One bought a cosmetics distributorship for $4,500 and became entitled to sell distributorships to others, pocketing a fat commission. 0000023769 00000 n As Mr, Maxa notes, Americans have always had a weakness for successful rogues. 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. Today, fake it till you make it has come to represent the scrappy, optimistic mind-set of American hustle culture. 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. Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses.[30]. [28], Ben Gay, a high-level instructor at Leadership Dynamics, was President of Holiday Magic in the United States. [25] The Office of the State Attorney General in Maine, United States cites In re Holiday Magic, Inc., 84 F.T.C. Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. If anybody was hurt by our program or suffered because of it, I am sure sorry, Rechtor said. : 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. )[6] 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. 72-390. [1][5] Navarro described the training as having "overtones of strict military training techniques. C-74-1067-LHB., No. [18] Clarke referred to the company as an "illegitimate" business. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [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. Theres a difference between psyching yourself up and misrepresenting yourself, and the latter is where fake it has gone too far. 0000043655 00000 n Dougherty then passed sentence, despite receiving hundreds of letters in support of Turner. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In the low-interest-rate environment of the past decade, investors put up money with little diligence, and fake it till you make it turned toxic. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Dougherty said he had received "hundreds" of letters in support of Turner. 0000008424 00000 n Eventually, the truth comes out. L|B@9`CwX}LKC 748 as an example of pyramid schemes. 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. Lets fix that. <> Mr. Maxa, Washington Post reporter, describes this ripe chapter in the annals of Boobus Americanus with clarity and an eye for the juicy detail. In August 1972, he was charged with "86 counts of sale of unregistered securities and failing to register as a dealer". By Rudy Maxa. Mailman and Beekman, who pleaded guilty to one count each of violating pyramid laws, will be sentenced next month. 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. House Committee on Small Business, 1991. [7] (In 1972 he built a "$3.5 million white stone castle with a helicopter landing pad" on Bear Gulley Lake, also near Orlando. . 0000003018 00000 n ", United States Congress. "Our intent was to help people believe in themselves.". He subsequently bought exclusive rights for Middle East distribution of Holiday Magic cosmetics and formed his own company, Beauty Magic, in Beirut, Lebanon. The two men told Dougherty before sentencing that they never intended to break the law. [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. Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). Unsatisfied investors also filed lawsuits. According to 2019 surveys done by the Pew Research Center, almost half of us say Americans are not as reliable as in the past. 271 0 obj Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. DARE TO BE GREAT. Jurors found them innocent of 27 counts of securities violations involving Challenge Inc., a motivational company. Traditionally, businesses have had to state their returns using metrics that can only be faked by lying. uOf2v]IM{7\~CPWb=sVX\IQ2ec )^y&wM9t>5YO! 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. 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. Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. 0000041122 00000 n "And so can you," they would tell the crowd. Koscot Interplanetary was a company from Orlando, Florida, selling mink oil-based cosmetics and was started by Glenn W. Turner in 1967. 0000007360 00000 n 0000003563 00000 n 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. 0000004278 00000 n 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. Turner, who was pale and appeared tired, and Rector, his former bodyguard, had no visible reaction to the sentences. Turner ran in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate election in Florida, 1974, but lost. 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. 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.. 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. What Turner really sold was hope, which is the stock in trade of others beside pyramid sales pushers. 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]. Turner and Rechtor, who also received seven years, were convicted in July of 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and promoting a pyramid scheme. 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". "The first time I ever heard those words from those men was in this courtroom," Rector said. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. [9] The FTC found that Holiday Magic was in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, and section 2 (a) of the Clayton Antitrust Act. He said neither man would be eligible for release from prison before serving at least two-thirds of the sentence. 0000037159 00000 n Investment of $5,000. xref But Dougherty denied bond and ordered both men to begin serving their sentences immediately. One report has him convicted of running a pyramid scheme in Arizona in 1985 and released after five years in prison. 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. 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. "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. "Equal Credit Opportunity Act Amendments and Consumer Leasing Act-1975., Hearings, United States Congress. 0000037334 00000 n "[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. v. Robert W. Warren et al. endobj Donate Rector said the men -- Douglas Beekman of Apopka and Richard Mailman of Altamonte Springs -- never voiced such a concern to him. 0000010114 00000 n 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.. But what he is actually selling, he . The history of fake it till you make it offers a lesson here, if we want to heed it. trailer He was featured in an 11-page article in Life magazine in 1971,[8] and was reportedly worth $300 million at the time. %%EOF Box 1. Turner's long gone from the 0000023769 00000 n Turner, the son of a sharecropper, told people they. 2/10/75, p. 38) and Bestline . There, it appeared as a way for people in recovery to project themselves forward into a more sober future. endstream endobj 165 0 obj <>stream 84 F.T.C. Turner would emerge under a banner reading "Dare to Be Great" and vacuum up money through a pyramid marketing scheme based on selling motivational tapes containing the secret of getting rich. According to a presentence investigation, Turner, who has been living in North Carolina, is broke and has no assets or income. In 2006 he published a book (To Beirut and Back - An American in the Middle East) dealing, in part, with his experiences. [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. 235 0 obj 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. (Javice has denied the banks claims.) 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. 0000001036 00000 n [6], In February 1973, Holiday Magic was sued for calumny by Avon Products. He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses. It didnt. DeMuro, RG. During the eight-week trial, however, two former top Turner aides testified that Challenge officials knew their operation was illegal. Turner, though, had hired a lawyer for his sentencing Thursday. But faking it in matters of money is another matter entirely. 0000006135 00000 n Holiday Magic Inc. et al. 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. One representative pyramid venture, Dare to be Great, Inc., is de-scribed in SEC v. Glenn W Turner Enterprises, Inc. 8 . 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 0000001036 00000 n 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. I have remorse for these people that did not benefit by what we set out to do. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. 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. "Pyramid Sales: Hearing Before the Subcommittee for Consumers of the Committee on Commerce, United States Congress", 1974, United States Congress, Pp. . Attached to the side stands connected a lone, cylindrical tower that contains a stairwell on the inside. 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). [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. 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. "All you have to do is believe it."[7]. Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. 0000003297 00000 n 0000037334 00000 n This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 23:43. [12] The indictment said that Bailey had appeared in a film made for Turner's organization and had appeared with Turner at several rallies. They drove new Cadillacs and wore alligator shoes. The company called Zolene was about to go out of business. What a fine madness it was, the heyday of Dare to Be Great. Mr. Maxa has missed very little about Turner's operations and the soueces of his appeal. [1] To form the pyramids of success, many directors, larger numbers of supervisors, salespeople and still more customers were needed. "If anyone was hurt in our program, I am extremely sorry. endobj See the article in its original context from. 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. 0000023584 00000 n The saying became so pervasive in Amway that it would be the title of a 1980s expos by Phil Kerns. 0000004119 00000 n 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. 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. 6, 19, 24., Library of Congress. "[7] Turner, attorney F. Lee Bailey, and eight others were also indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges. 235 0 obj [28] Holiday Magic distributors were invited, though not required, to attend the Leadership Dynamics Institute self-improvement sessions at a cost of $1000 each. deal). 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. 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.. Glenn Turner's Winter Park castle currently is for sale for $1.8 million. 0000006496 00000 n 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. 0000000016 00000 n 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. See the article in its original context from. 0000000016 00000 n Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. No. [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. But this salesman extraordinaire in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. 0000031956 00000 n [1] It became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and went out of business in the 1970s.[2]. Anyone can read what you share. 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. 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. 0000007360 00000 n 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. Food delivery services such as Grubhub and Postmates included restaurants on their platforms that didnt have contracts with them. "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. 0000043655 00000 n [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. 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. Dougherty also ordered Turner and Rector to pay $44,000 each in fines to be distributed to victims. that our program was a crime," he said. "They come from all over this country and abroad. The purpose of this Note is to investigate the Turner himself offers one cautionary tale. 0000001791 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. "[7], According to one report target of prosecutors "in more than 30 states" targeted him. Just when one has about decided there is little more one wants to know about the harelipped sharecropper's son, the book changes focus to the years of various legal proceedingssecurities irregularities, mail fraud, obtaining money through false pretensesthat finally stopped the unstoppable Turner. startxref 256 pages. It's easy and secure. The guy at the top could make millions. Some "schemes" are specifically developed to sidestep Pyramid Scheme legislation by offering a "product" or "service". .to various charitable organizations. torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! 0000001791 00000 n Oaks pleaded guilty last year to one felony count of operating an illegal pyramid scheme and agreed to testify against Turner and Rechtor. 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. 0000004799 00000 n 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. 0000004119 00000 n 0000006933 00000 n Psychiatrist Alfred Adler, writing in the early 20th century, argued people could change habits by embracing an act as if strategy: assume a behavior and, eventually, it will become real. 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