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'''Melvin Sembler''' is was the Ambassador to Italy appointed by [[George W. Bush]], under accusation of "buying" his appointment. [http://thestraights.com/people/straight-officials/board/sembler/sembler-family-contributions.htm]in 2001.
Sembler was appointed had previously served as Ambassador to Australia and Nauru by [[George H.W. Bush]] in 1989. [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/7043.htm] "Sembler served as Finance Chairman for the [[Republican National Committee]] from 1997 to 2000. He also served as Florida's National Committeeman to the Republican National Committee after his election in 1994 until 2000." [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/7043.htm]
Sembler is CEO of [[Sembler Co.]], one of America's largest shopping mall chains, co-founder of [[Drug Free America Foundation]] (formerly Straight, Inc.). His wife, [[Betty Sembler]], currently heads the Foundation.
In 2005 Mel Sembler was involved in a scandal involving the government purchase of an 83.5 million dollar palace once owned by an Italian insurance company, and naming it after himself, with an addtional 30 million dollars in refurbishment.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5165-2005Mar3.html] To this day no other sitting ambassador has had a building, either in America or abroad, named after him.
==Political Contributions==
*http://thestraights.com/people/straight-officials/board/sembler/sembler-family-contributions.htm
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