Glenn W. Turner
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| Glenn W. Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 August 1934 Columbia, South Carolina |
| Died | 8 January 2020 (85) Lake Mary, Seminole Co., Florida |
| Affiliations | Koscot Interplanetary, Dare To Be Great, Inc., Souncot Records, Challenge to America |
Glenn Wesley Turner (August 19, 1934 - January 8, 2020) was an American motivational speaker and multi-level network marketer, famed for the rise and fall of his cosmetics distribution franchise company Koscot Interplanetary and self-motivation course distributor Dare To Be Great, Inc., both of which were subject to lawsuits by distributors over unpaid dividends, state-level prosecutions as pyramid schemes, and federal charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for illegal price fixing and impositions on distributors[i] and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the legal standing of their sale of distributorships, these being ultimately found in court to be unregistered securities subject to public oversight.[ii][iii] Following the bankruptcy of Dare To Be Great, Inc., Turner founded Challenge to America in 1979, offering a similar series of self-motivational courses, but again found himself facing civil and criminal suits over his business practices, this time ultimately being convicted of felony fraud in Arizona during 1986 and serving the next six years in prison.
Selected Discography
- Glenn W. Turner (1971), Glenn W. Turner Speaks Out: "You Can Better Your Best" (LP, Souncot Records, SC-1114)
- Glenn W. Turner (197-), Reaching for the Stars with Glenn W. Turner, Mr. Enthusiasm (LP, Koscot Interplanetary, K.I.K. 787)
- Glenn W. Turner (1972), Dare To Be Great! (LP, Souncot Records, SC-1118)
- Glenn W. Turner & The Jordanaires (1972), The Unstoppable Americans (LP, Souncot Records)
Of note, several of Turner's albums were produced by Bobby Lee Trammell.
Reading
Academic
- Cochran, Harry M., Jr. (1972), "Dare to be Great, Inc.: A Case Study of Pyramid Sales Plan Regulation", Ohio State Law Journal 33 (3), https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/69300/OSLJ_V33N3_0676.pdf
- Daniels, Donald (1975), "Toward a Uniform Approach to Multilevel Distributorships", Uni. Michigan Journal of Law Reform 8 (3), https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol8/iss3/6/
General
- Thompson, Thomas (28 May 1971), "A super-huckster builds an empire on a bold slogan: 'Dare to be Great!'", LIFE: 68-78, https://books.google.com/books?id=OkEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA68&#v=twopage&q&f=false
- Robinson, Kenneth Michael (1976), The Great American Mail-Fraud Trial: United States of America vs. Glenn W. Turner, F. Lee Bailey, Dare To Be Great, Koscot Interplanetary Inc. et al., New York: Nash Pub., https://www.amazon.com/great-American-mail-fraud-trial-Interplanetary/dp/0840213670/?tag=apopheniacs-20
- Maxa, Rudy (1977), Dare to be Great: The Unauthorized Story of Glenn Turner, New York: Morrow, https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Great-Unauthorized-Story-Turner/dp/0688031013/?tag=apopheniacs-20
Notes
- ↑ In re: Koscot Interplanetary Inc., 86 F.T.C. 11106 (1975): https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/commission_decision_volumes/volume-86/ftc_volume_decision_86_july_-_december_1975pages_1106-1202.pdf
- ↑ SEC v. Glenn W. Turner Enter., Inc., 474 F.2d 476 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 82, 1973: the distributorships sold by Turner & Co. were upheld to be investment contracts governed under the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Refer: https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-sec-v-glenn-w-turner-enters-inc
- ↑ SEC v. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. 497 F.2d 473 (5th Cir.), 1974: the terms of the distributorships sold by Koscot constituted an investment and were thus similarly subject to the Exchange Act. Refer: https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-sec-v-koscot-interplanetary-inc