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The Sunshine Place

S2|E5: The Mayflower Group

The Sunshine Place

Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Straight Incorporated sets its sites on the next prime market. The suburbs of Washington, D.C., with its population of wealthy and powerful parents who are also desperate and vulnerable to Straight’s propaganda. But one of the kids there comes up with a daring plan that threatens to upend Straight’s expanding empire. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:13.1

and use it for free. You might think financial crime is all about money, but sometimes it ends in murder.

0:20.7

I'm Nicole Lapin, host of Money

0:22.1

Crimes, a Crimehouse original podcast. Each episode features a thrilling story about the dark

0:27.7

sign of finance and how to protect yourself from it. Follow and listen to Money Crimes,

0:32.3

an Odyssey podcast in partnership with Crimehouse Studios available on the free Odyssey app and wherever

0:37.4

you get your

0:37.8

podcasts.

0:45.9

This episode contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse.

0:51.1

Please take care while listening.

0:54.7

The most difficult thing we've ever done would be the creation of the program,

0:59.2

Strait, which is a drug rehabilitation program for young people.

1:02.8

This is Mel Semler, the founder and chairman of the board of Straight Incorporated.

1:08.7

In episode four, Sempler set out to transform Straight into a national franchise,

1:13.7

with branches all over the country.

1:16.5

While he had absolutely no qualifications in teen rehabilitation,

1:20.8

he was uniquely suited to the task.

1:23.8

His expertise was in commercial real estate,

1:27.2

specifically shopping malls.

1:29.3

Something new was coming online in the early 60s called shopping centers.

1:34.3

And I was watching that with great interest and convinced my father-in-law that perhaps it's time to bring a shopping center of the small community that he was in.

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