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Almon Glenn Braswell was born on 11 March, 1943 in Albany, GA, is a Convicted businessman pardoned by Clinton. Discover Almon Glenn Braswell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation Business owner
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 11 March 1943
Birthday 11 March
Birthplace Albany, GA
Date of death 28 October, 2006
Died Place Miami Beach, FL
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1943

Almon Glenn Braswell (March 11, 1943 – October 28, 2006) was a convicted felon American business owner who founded Gero Vita International Inc. He is most noted for being one of the 140 people pardoned in the Bill Clinton pardons controversy of January 2001.

1960

During the 1960s the FDA wielded absolute power and considered Head Start Vitamins to be fraudulent products.

Since Head Start Vitamins did not break any laws outright, i.e. the ingredients in the vitamin were legal for consumption, the advertising did not claim to be a 100% cure and preceded with a "pattern baldness" disclaimer, there was nothing the FDA could do.

Taking a lesson from Al Capone and the prohibition days, the US Attorney General pressed tax fraud charges against Braswell.

Curiously Cosvetics Laboratory was not directly charged.

Braswell was sent to minimum security prison in Kentucky for 3 years.

1961

Glenn Braswell attended the University of Montevallo in Alabama (then called Alabama College) from 1961 to 1965.

Braswell was an average student, but excelled in mathematics and was voted into honorary mathematics society, Kappa Mu Epsilon.

An easy going individual and well-liked by all his peers, he graduated with average grade of B. Braswell was a very health conscious person for that period.

He was also a muscle builder and an avid tennis player and could always be seen working out in the athletic fields of the university.

1965

After graduation, Braswell went to work in 1965 for the U.S. Navy Mine Defense in Panama City, Florida Laboratory (now called Naval Surface Warfare Systems – Panama City).

See the picture from The Underseer of July 16, 1965, for his hire-in ID.

1967

On January 23, 1967, he left the Navy job to hire in to Lockheed-Georgia Company in Marietta, Georgia, as a programmer.

Braswell started having minor health problems which he felt was leading to excessive hair loss.

It is not clear whether he had a medical condition or just self-perception that he was losing hair thus affecting his good looks.

He started doing basic search for a cure, but was not able to find one.

Consulting with several doctors, the best course of action recommended to him was to take several types of vitamins.

In his words, all the vitamins recommended would choke a horse in a single dose.

Therefore, he started to search for an alternative by consulting with pharmacists who offered to custom make vitamins for him.

Driven by his own needs, Braswell commissioned the vitamin which he felt would cure his growing baldness.

Braswell also felt that his hair loss problem was not unique and started a company to sell this remedy advertising on TV Guide.

Response from TV Guide ads were beyond expectations and Braswell started a company, Cosvetics laboratory, to sell Head Start vitamin on the side.

With his background as a programmer, he kept meticulous records of his customers.

1970

As profits grew, he quit his programming job with Lockheed on January 5, 1970, and started a full-time career in vitamin sales writing his own ad for TV Guide.

Sales grew quickly and Braswell expanded into other health vitamins such as Ginseng and other trace vitamins not in the mainstream at that time.

He advertised on local television in Atlanta which brought in immediate sales with each running of the ads.

With such heavy responses, Braswell set up a telesales staff geared to accept orders during the advertisements.

In retrospect, the operation is very similar to today's infomercial TV programs.

As a programmer, Braswell realized early on that the volume of responses was beyond an index card system and rented an IBM System 3 computer to store customer information.

The computer system later was expanded into a mainframe Univac.

Business continued to expand and Cosvetics Laboratory continued to add products and started a health magazine geared to articles that would support the sales of its product lines.

It also bought customer lists from New York-based advertising agencies from which it began to send direct mail and recorded sales responses into its database.

For the period in the mid-1970s Braswell had one of the most sophisticated customer/advertisement databases in America.

1976

In 1976 the FCC allowed broadcaster Ted Turner to take his Atlanta station nationwide.

With it Cosvetics Lab became the first direct sale company that was able to access the entire national TV audience.

While the ads did not claim to be a cure for hair loss, it was considered by the FDA as bordering on, if not outright fraudulent.

1983

In 1983, Braswell was convicted of mail fraud and perjury in relation to false claims about a baldness treatment and sentenced to three years in federal prison.

2001

He was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton in January 2001, on Clinton's last day in office.

It was later revealed that Clinton's brother-in-law Hugh Rodham had been paid $200,000 by Braswell to lobby for the pardon.

Rodham eventually returned the money.