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This FBI file concerns Straight Incorporated, an adolescent drug-treatment organization whose national operations closed in 1993 after longstanding controversy over its practices. The released records are primarily FBI interview reports and a January 1994 Atlanta-to-Tampa communication from a 1993 financial investigation. Witnesses described centralized billing and bank transfers to the St. Petersburg headquarters, cash-flow problems, unpaid insurance reimbursements, pressure to maintain enrollment, and possible personal use of corporate credit cards. The file also includes a 1993 newspaper article on the closure of the St. Petersburg center and records describing the destruction of Straight's medical and financial files in March 1993.

FBI file number: 209B-TP-28810 | Documents span: 1993-1994 | Released in 2 parts
Names in this file: Mel Sembler, Bernadine Braithwaite, Richard Bradbury, Nancy Reagan, George H. W. Bush
Subjects: adolescent drug treatment, financial investigation, insurance reimbursements, corporate records, program closure