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SW: Mel Sembler under investigation in Palm Beach county Florida
In March 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.<ref>Al Kamen, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5165-2005Mar3.html "Narcissus Is Now Greek AND Roman,"] ''Washington Post'', March 3, 2005.</ref> To this day no other sitting ambassador has had a building, either in America or abroad, named after him.
== Investigations ==
Mel Sembler is currently under Federal Investigation in Palm Beach county, Florida, for what appears to be a bribe to county officials through an influential lobbyist for a proposed construction project. The developer paid a $100,000 fee to lobbyist Hugo Unruh after being told it would be hard to win county approval for a traffic-throttling shopping center without him. <ref>[http://www.palmbeachpost.com/arts/content/local_news/epaper/2008/05/31/m1a_unruh_0601.html] ''Palm Beach Post'',May 31st,2008,</ref>
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