Koscot was founded in 1967. 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. Rector said the men -- Douglas Beekman of Apopka and Richard Mailman of Altamonte Springs -- never voiced such a concern to him. 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. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. See the article in its original context from. DeMuro, RG. 0000002472 00000 n According to a presentence investigation, Turner, who has been living in North Carolina, is broke and has no assets or income. Prosecutors said Challenge officials misled investors by telling them they would not have to put up their own money. "It is hard for me to believe . His sales rallies became legend. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was an Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company selling mink oil-based cosmetics, owned by Glenn Wesley Turner (19342020). If anybody was hurt by our program or suffered because of it, I am sure sorry, Rechtor said. Lotstein said the men must serve at least two-thirds of the sentence, more than 4 1/2 years, before they are eligible for parole. "[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. One bought a cosmetics distributorship for $4,500 and became entitled to sell distributorships to others, pocketing a fat commission. 0000037334 00000 n uOf2v]IM{7\~CPWb=sVX\IQ2ec )^y&wM9t>5YO! [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. A list of over 350 print sources on paper chain letters and pyramid schemes. The guy at the top could make millions. 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. 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. The two men told Dougherty before sentencing that they never intended to break the law. Summary of this case from Great Western Bank & Trust v . [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. 0000005760 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. 0 0000008424 00000 n 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 "Our intent was to help people believe in themselves.". The House was supposed to grow with population. He subsequently bought exclusive rights for Middle East distribution of Holiday Magic cosmetics and formed his own company, Beauty Magic, in Beirut, Lebanon. 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. In 1979, his fortune gone, he attempted a comeback with another motivational company called Challenge, Inc.,[6] which led to more legal difficulties. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. Donate 0000006933 00000 n Prosecutors said Rector and Turner also failed to warn investors that Challenge had been sued and was facing large judgments. 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. 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. 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. Koscot and Dare to be Great grew rapidly and Turner became famous. Lotstein said 202 Arizona residents participated in the program. But what made him "really rich" was reportedly Koscot Interplanetary[6] (Koscot stood for "Kosmetics for the Communities of Tomorrow"). [7] He told reporters as he was led away to jail: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. endobj 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 companies collapsed in 1973 under lawsuits filed by investors and investigations by state and federal agencies. Even then, he never stopped explaining. "I think the court's ruling today put the final period in the final chapter of the book on Glenn Turner.". House Committee on Small Business, 1991. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. ), it's too late to put the book down. 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. "Challenge had a positive effect on all of our lives," said one woman who was crying in the hallway outside the courtroom. "The Role of Small Business in Franchising, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Minority Small Business. 0000006135 00000 n But Dougherty denied bond and ordered both men to begin serving their sentences immediately. 1974., May 20, 1974. Within a few years Turner's enterprises had made an estimated $300 million. Traditionally, businesses have had to state their returns using metrics that can only be faked by lying. 0000007782 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. endobj [1][5] Navarro described the training as having "overtones of strict military training techniques. 0000032500 00000 n /b+;*R2VL5 WC^ ;_>[AM "su`/d_w$3qhTGS;#m!bytBefF~s*GB9z\eBUK,nrEYXn u.$leJrk5@ 0000005760 00000 n Glenn Turner's Winter Park castle currently is for sale for $1.8 million. [1], In 1974, after almost 10 years in operation and tied to pyramid schemes and controversy, both Leadership Dynamics and Mind Dynamics ceased operations. 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. 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. Company distributors were encouraged to recruit other distributors in a multilevel marketing structure, which was later characterized as a pyramid scheme. If it can happen to Charles Colson, folks, you gotta believe. <<7C981AD2C2A8B2110A00B0784D58FC7F>]/Prev 803466>> Our intent was to help people. [1] To form the pyramids of success, many directors, larger numbers of supervisors, salespeople and still more customers were needed. 0000002742 00000 n Martha Stewart sparked headlines in 2005 when she fired a contestant on The Apprentice who embraced the phrase. 0000007360 00000 n Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs. 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? This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 23:43. 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 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 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. 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 %PDF-1.7 % Holiday Magic was a multi-level marketing organization, founded in 1964, by William Penn Patrick (19301973) in the United States. 0000004278 00000 n Two years later he founded Dare to be Great, a motivational program similar to the later Challenge. : 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. 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. 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. 748 - IN THE MATTER OF HOLIDAY MAGIC, INC., ET AL. deal). 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. Dougherty said he had received "hundreds" of letters in support of Turner. 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 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 Turner, 53, created a $300 million empire in the 1970s by selling distributorships in his Dare to be Great and Koscot International companies. 0000043655 00000 n 0000010114 00000 n On May 16, 1974, a compromise settlement with approximately 31,000 class members, establishing a trust fund worth $2,600,381, was approved by the court. 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. The main portion of the building is wide and round, while the top features a design that is fort-like in nature. the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. We found 28 records for Glenn Turner in Houston, Royse City and 15 other cities in Texas. 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? %%EOF [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. House Permanent Select Committee on Small Business., 1973, P. 127, 137, 157, 203. Mr. Maxa cannot resist quoting H. L. Mencken's observation that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Turner himself offers one cautionary tale. 0000041122 00000 n that our program was a crime," he said. 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. Warren., 497 F.2d 687., C.A.Wis. Turner and his best friend, Edward G. Rector, were each sentenced to seven years in state prison. Stewart was behind the societal curve. [26] Faltinsky described Holiday Magic as "..the largest pyramid scam of all time.."[27], In 1967, William Penn Patrick wrote a booklet, entitled Happiness and Success through Principle, and founded Leadership Dynamics based on those principles. 164 0 obj <>stream But that came later. xref The company called Zolene was about to go out of business. I have remorse for these people that did not benefit by what we set out to do. 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. Mr. Turner's business, osten sibly, is cosmetics, the keystone product in a bizarre conglom erate called Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc. 0000031956 00000 n In the end, Turner was saved by New Orleans evangelist, known as the Chaplain of Bourbon Street, who also pointed the way to fiscal salvation by introducing Turner to his own business managera former minister himself. Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. JrsJk**j;{:[Z{&N. 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. [12] The indictment said that Bailey had appeared in a film made for Turner's organization and had appeared with Turner at several rallies. 0000031782 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. 0000003297 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. We need a reset, and to find a way to once again prioritize and reward diligent, honest effort over faux success. trailer In my business, theres just no faking it, Stewart said. [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". 0000007360 00000 n [28] The Mind Dynamics course was described as providing "a means of achieving personal success through the conscious use of the subconscious mind". [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. [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. 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. The purpose of this Note is to investigate the Pyramid Schemes Versus Ponzi Schemes The labels Ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme are often used interchangeably to describe specific forms of investment fraud where sustainability depends on the influx of new "investors" to the scheme. trailer Koscot Interplanetary. 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. 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). 0000006135 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. ,'nuG>wP6T7:"K3'G9U 235 37 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. 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. "The first time I ever heard those words from those men was in this courtroom," Rector said. When a federal judge lumped together 1,000 of those lawsuits into a single class-action suit seeking nearly $1 billion, Turner went bankrupt. [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. 58.95. startxref 2/10/75, p. 38) and Bestline . 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.. Its not clear who originated the exact wording of fake it till you make it, or how Turner and his followers adopted it. 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. By Rudy ???trated. In 2006 he published a book (To Beirut and Back - An American in the Middle East) dealing, in part, with his experiences. See the article in its original context from. [6], In February 1973, Holiday Magic was sued for calumny by Avon Products. In re HOLIDAY MAGIC SECURITIES AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION., James J. 5616. [28] Holiday Magic distributors were invited, though not required, to attend the Leadership Dynamics Institute self-improvement sessions at a cost of $1000 each. ", Nevertheless, Dougherty said, the men deserved prison terms because "some of these victims suffered great emotional and financial harm by your actions.". However, the focus of the company was more about selling distributorships than cosmetics. 0000001036 00000 n Investment of $5,000. 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. He said neither man would be eligible for release from prison before serving at least two-thirds of the sentence. The Arizona case marked the first felony conviction for Turner, who built a fortune around his Orlando-based pyramid sales 20 years ago. 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. 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. Mr. Maxa has the newspaper reporter's habit of cramming in information wherever it will fit, whether apposite or no. "There have been a lot of books written about Mr. Turner," said Barnett Lotstein, the assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case. In August 1972, he was charged with "86 counts of sale of unregistered securities and failing to register as a dealer". vlyiJ)pd*n\[PN>8Yl^1cyO"`CC\=bu3hB torture involving a mouse that was supposed to eat a recalcitrant witness's heart (Good Lord! In SEC v. Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc., 474 F.2d 476, 482 (9th Cir. "All you have to do is believe it."[7]. 0000002742 00000 n 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. 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. He then started two multi-level marketing companies, Koscot Interplanetary, selling cosmetics, and Dare to Be Great, selling motivational and self-improvement courses.[30]. By Rudy Maxa. The history of fake it till you make it offers a lesson here, if we want to heed it. C-74-1067-LHB., No. 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. 235 0 obj 1. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 0000031782 00000 n [28], CEO and President Roland R. Nocera pleaded guilty to securities fraud, in the case United States v. Nocera, et al. But Turner seems to have genuinely convinced himself he was offering the little people a splendid opportunity. 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. 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. Citation Needed, a podcast, has an episode about William Penn Patrick (and Holiday Magic). 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. the Glenn Turner modification is a good one. 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. ", United States Congress. %PDF-1.7 % 256 pp. 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. [30] In popular culture [ edit] He was paroled in November but must be supervised by. But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. 0000003839 00000 n 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. All these characters in bright red polyester doubleknits, with rhinestone flag lapel pins, dashing around the country making people hum, MMMMMMMM MONEY!. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. ", United States Congress. 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. 0000037159 00000 n "They have for years.". ". Dropping the creator of Dilbert is free speech at work, Ron DeSantis shows how not to run an education system, False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes. 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. GLENN W. TURNER ENTERPRISES, INC., a Florida corporation, et al., Defendants. As he was led off to jail, he told reporters: The good that I have done outweighs the bad. 0000003018 00000 n Lets fix that. In a fitting finale, Turner, stopped for good and all, is saved by a showy evangelist from New Orleans. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. 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. Civ. Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva, Mark W. Pletcher, Lisa Sanniti and Carl Brooker. 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. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. 72-390. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARYSeptember 1, 2021. But his empire collapsed after state and federal investigators accused him of operating pyramid schemes that bilked thousands of investors. )[6] 0000000016 00000 n [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. 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". Turner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in return for a probation sentence. There being no provision in either law or morality for fraud without intent, it's hard to figure out what that makes Glenn Turner. We dont trust the government, media or big business. 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.. Glenn W. Turner worked briefly for Holiday Magic in 1966. Lotstein said he doubted the money would ever be collected. Mr. Maxa, Washington Post reporter, describes this ripe chapter in the annals of Boobus Americanus with clarity and an eye for the juicy detail. Dougherty also ordered Turner and Rector to pay $44,000 each in fines to be distributed to victims. 0000008424 00000 n In 1967 Turner borrowed $5,000 to start his Koscot Interplanetary Inc., a cosmetics firm in which distributors could sell other distributorships for commissions. <>stream 0000041306 00000 n He was featured in an 11-page article in Life magazine in 1971,[8] and was reportedly worth $300 million at the time. 0000001660 00000 n [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. "Summary of Testimony and Findings and Conclusions Resulting from Hearings in New York on Drug Law. 0000001791 00000 n Illustrated. 0000003018 00000 n Turner barely escaped jail in 1975 when a federal jury in Florida was unable to reach a verdict after a nine-month fraud trial. 0000000016 00000 n 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. New York: William Morrow & Co. $8.95. 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. [1], Pyramid schemes being illegal, Koscot became involved in substantial litigation from government agencies and Koscot's customers. [17] Turner described it as one of the first "pyramid marketing" companies in America. 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. Jurors found them innocent of 27 counts of securities violations involving Challenge Inc., a motivational company. A Maricopa County Superior Court jury convicted Turner and Rector Tuesday on charges that they promoted a pyramid scheme, similar to chain letters, with their motivational company Challenge. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Morrow. [18] Clarke referred to the company as an "illegitimate" business. Cryptocurrency arrived, basically a fake it till you make it form of money. 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