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The men who pinned hundred‑dollar bills to their lapels drew crowds that paid to join
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A man walks onstage with a hundred-dollar bill pinned to his lapel, sometimes a thousand-dollar bill, and the crowd watching him reaches for their checkbooks. Five thousand dollars buys the right to stand on that same stage someday and do the same thing. What happens when everyone in the room is selling and no one is left to buy?
In this episode, we trace Glenn Wesley's rise from a South Carolina tobacco farm to a three-hundred-million-dollar motivational empire, asking how a rags-to-riches biography became the product itself — and what happened when the recruiting pool ran dry.
Person: Glenn Wesley Wesley
Location: Lake Maitland and Bear Gulley Lake, near Orlando, Florida
Date: August 1967 (founding of Koscot Interplanetary, Inc.)
Case: the multi-level distributorship scheme built through Koscot Interplanetary and Dare to Be Great
Status: collapsed under lawsuits and federal charges; Wesley later imprisoned; the unfinished castle still stands on Bear Gulley Lake
- Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. was founded in August 1967; Dare to Be Great followed in 1969
- At its peak the network employed an estimated 60,000 people across 40 states and Canada, with around 500,000 participants
- Distributorships cost $5,000, supervisorships $2,000, and directorships $5,400
- In 1971 the FTC sued Koscot for restraint of trade; in 1972 Wesley faced 86 counts of selling unregistered securities
- F. Lee Bailey was indicted alongside Wesley in 1973 in a Pittsburgh mail fraud case that ended in a hung jury
- More than 1,000 lawsuits were consolidated into a class action seeking over $900 million
- After bankruptcy, accountants found Koscot had generated $169 million in revenue while owing $33 million to creditors
- The FTC's ruling in the Koscot matter became a lasting legal standard still cited to distinguish legal multi-level marketing from illegal pyramid schemes
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