Melvin Sembler, AO

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69746359762483062382011-09-04T10:23:34.705-04:00Melvin Sembler, AOWes Fagernoreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-16386357360825104352009-01-11T08:41:00.015-05:002009-01-11T15:11:52.740-05:00Betty Sembler receives 2008 Lifetime Achievemment Award from DEA Museum Fdn

The incredible story of how a woman who founded a destructive drug rehabilitation cult got an award from the DEA, it would appear, for using her family's political influence buying to transform the cult into a national think tank on drug policy, for convincing the DEA to locate its world-wide training center down the street from her, and for turning the center's host into a major university. ____

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-63757429195294226892009-01-06T11:46:00.005-05:002009-01-09T02:57:43.178-05:00Governor of Florida inducts Betty Sembler to Florida Women's Hall of Shame, er Fame

It is not unusual for politicians to bestow honorary awards upon cult founders. In 2000 Florida Governor Jeb Bush declared August 8 Betty Sembler Day in all of Florida for her work at Straight, Inc., one of the most destructive juvenile drug rehabilitation programs ever. Over 40 former clients have committed suicide. Betty (wife of Ambassador Mel Sembler) was Jeb Bush's finance co-chairman and in

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-32274716972367322012009-01-06T11:30:00.000-05:002009-01-06T11:52:37.942-05:00President Bush appoints Mel and Betty's daughter-in-law to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Elizabeth Sembler, wife of Mel and Betty Sembler's son Greg Sembler who is CEO of Sembler Company, has been appointed by President Bush to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-1391544593706105662009-01-06T06:15:00.000-05:002009-01-06T06:17:16.765-05:00Gov. Jeb Bush declares Betty Sembler Day

Reprinted from www.theStraights.com 2000It is not unusual for humanitarians such as Straight cofounder Betty Sembler and Scientology® founder L. Ron Hubbard to have a day named in their honor. March 13 has been declared L. Ron Hubbard Day in 150 American cities by mayors impressed with Hubbard's work in areas like drug rehabilitation, education and reform of criminals. The Los Angeles city

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-64918945642383337092009-01-03T20:04:00.000-05:002009-01-04T17:25:48.469-05:00Wake up Ebenezer Sembler before it's too late

an editorial from theStraights.comMankind was my business...............The ghost of Jacob Marley from "A Christmas Carol."In February 2007 a speaker fell on 4 year old Josiah Wineberger from a second story balcony at the Baywalk Shopping Center in St. Petersburg, Fl., crushing him and fracturing his skull. Doctors said he would never walk again, but, with intense physical therapy, Josiah is not

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-87854507665763481332008-12-09T12:00:00.000-05:002008-12-09T12:15:13.590-05:00$100,000 Reward offered for information on Sembler and his friends

.WANTED$100,000 REWARDfor information that is material to either a criminal conviction . . .Accountable America, a liberal group, is offering a $100,000 reward for information that is material to either a criminal conviction for committing a felony or a misdemeanor, or a final and unappealed judicial or administrative determination of civil liability that entails the imposition of fines or

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-64565371751237561092008-09-08T11:44:00.000-04:002008-09-08T11:47:12.109-04:00$20K Sembler donation tied to DeKalb deal

Story from Decatur Metro

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-69286716331783644732006-11-14T19:55:00.000-05:002008-08-23T20:15:38.746-04:00Mel Sembler and the women in his life

by Wes FagerTuesday, November 14, 2006Recently Melvin Sembler was deposed in a lawsuit he has brought against one of his former employees, Ray Bradbury. Mel and Betty are suing Bradbury for trying to sell Melvin's discarded penile pump on eBay. During his deposition the ambassador submitted that his personal assistant Marlene McCord keeps a file on special people and that Bradbury fits that

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-37172938699067788142006-11-10T11:36:00.000-05:002008-09-08T11:42:20.843-04:00Sembler's Dekalb deal

Originally posted by Wes Fager in Creative Loafing-Atlanta on 11.10.06 @ 05:31 PMIn October Sembler Company was trying to make a secret deal with DeKalb County Georgia officials to build a $600 million shopping center complex when DeKalb housing authority director Bettye Davis was suddenly fired just days after she had granted an open-records request by the Atlanta Constitution and Journal for

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-82286873001791445102006-11-02T07:26:00.000-05:002008-08-23T13:30:16.657-04:00We take exception to Craig Sher's comment about buying politicians for $500

Oh yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers!..............Willi Cici: The Godfather: Part IIRef. (a) "Sembler family is flexing its political muscles in city" by Carrie Johnson, St. Pete Times, Oct 30, 2005. pg. 1.B(Note: This article was originally posted on Nov. 2, 2006 on melvinandbettysembler.blogspot.com. )The other day Carrie Johnson of the St. Pete Times wrote an excellent article (

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-63168625865731118982006-10-29T13:38:00.000-05:002008-08-23T13:40:07.018-04:00Angelo Cappelli's secret weapon

Sunday, October 29, 2006Angelo Cappelli is running as a Republican for Florida's District 52 and he has an impressive resume. A Yale graduate in economics and a Fordham University law degree plus an MBA and work experience on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs makes him a politician who knows something. And he's spent civic time too. He's a former Eagle Scout who's still active in scouting. Also he

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-20201020808819410202006-10-23T10:25:00.000-04:002008-08-24T10:29:59.606-04:00Sembler's proposed $600 million complex in DeKalb County, Ga.

by Wes FagerMonday, October 23, 2006Sembler Company wants to build a $600 million complex of stores, offices and homes on 100 acres of government-controlled property at North Druid Hills and Briarcliff roads in DeKalb County, Georgia (the county around Atlanta). The property is owned by the DeKalb County School System and land leased for 48 years to the DeKalb Housing Authority. It would be one

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-70458188675489813022006-10-23T06:18:00.000-04:002008-08-23T07:33:06.245-04:00Sembler's shameful dalliance with political gadfly Doug Guetzloe

by Wes FagerAnyone who has followed local politics the past 20 years knows that Doug Guetzloe is the king of sleaze campaigns... Politics of the gutter and fringe are Guetzloe's stock in trade. The only real mystery surrounding Mr. Guetzloe is who pays to support his tactics that divide and embarrass this community........An editorial comment by Orlando Sentinel, 10-08-06 Note: this story is

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-22707044345017560942005-12-24T09:53:00.000-05:002008-08-23T10:02:07.387-04:00James W. Holton, DFAF and Fowler Mall

Originally posted as "Florida Dept. of Community Affairs throws wrench in Sembler's plans for Fowler Mall"The Winter Garden city council voted to let Sembler build a monster-sized open-air shopping center despite the objections of their own constituents who live out there. But now the state Department of Community Affairs has told Winter Garden it will cost the city $ 6 million and neighboring

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-65037625684916499372005-11-23T10:38:00.000-05:002008-08-24T10:41:17.240-04:00Sembler Company businesses in Georgia

Wednesday, November 23, 2005Sembler Company businesses in Georgia:(source Ga. Dept. of State, Corporations):http://web.archive.org/web/20070618071932/http://www.ganet.org/services/corp/individual.html):BRENT W. SEMBLER (SEMBLER RETAIL, INC.)BRENT W SEMBLER (SEMBLER ATLANTA, INC.)BRENT W SEMBLER (SEMBLER ENTERPRISES, INC.)BRENT W. SEMBLER (THE SEMBLER COMPANY)BRENT W. SEMBLER (SEMBLER CENTERS, INC

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-90845930772524369102005-10-01T20:14:00.000-04:002008-08-22T20:24:02.539-04:00Wife of former US Ambassador endorses accused child abuser

10-1-05 dateline St. Petersburg, Florida.Betty Sembler once forced Canadian Marc Emery to issue a public apology for calling her a "court certified child abuser". How correct she was for neither Betty Sembler or her husband Melvin have ever been held accountable for the sins of their Straight program in any court of law--anywhere. Furthermore, we have never heard of one incident, not one, of

Wes Fagernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974635976248306238.post-37332137834332571032005-03-15T07:56:00.000-05:002008-08-23T22:17:46.586-04:00The Mel Sembler Building--a $113 million shrine to a sitting ambassador

by Wes FagerOn June 7, 2002 about 25 former clients from Straight, Inc. flew in from all over the country and paid the toll to cross the causeway out to the exclusive, ocean-side home on Treasure Island, Florida of Straight founders Ambassador Mel Sembler and his wife Betty. The St. Pete Times sent a reporter to cover the protest but the story was killed and the Times was given exclusive selling

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