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While a sitting Ambassador to Italy, Sembler was heavily criticized for overseeing the purchase of an Italian palace near the Embassy. Sembler negotiated the purchase of the palace by the U.S. government for $83.5 million, and then named it after himself.<ref>Al Kamen [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5165-2005Mar3.html Narcissus Is Now Greek AND Roman], ''Washington Post'', March 4, 2005</ref>
Sembler helped finance the 2000 Florida election recount that gave George W. Bush the presidency. He also was a founding funder of the front group [[Freedom's Watch]], established in 2007.</ref>Mark Townsend and Peter Beaumont [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/07/politics.usa Brown aide plays down US talk of Iran threat], U.K. ''Guardian'', October 7, 2007</ref>
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