Glenn w turner wiki

Multi-level market salesman and convict

Glenn Wesley Turner (1934–2020)^[1] was a salesman best known for his Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. Turner and Koscot became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and Koscot went out of business in the 1970s.^[2] In 1987 Turner was convicted on charges of conspiracy, fraud and operating a pyramid scheme, and sentenced to seven years in prison.^[3]

Early life

Turner was a son of a sharecropper in a South Carolina tobacco farm^[4][5] and an unwed mother^{[citation needed]}.

He was born with a cleft palate and a hare lip; surgery to correct them left a scar for which he was bullied until he dropped out of school in the eighth grade. Turner was described as semiliterate.^[4] During his adult life, he had a speech impediment.^[6] He served briefly in the U.S.

Air Force before succe