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Straight was a cake walk in comparison.....

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Antigen:
Citizens Commission on Human Rights is listed in the transcript as a $ci front. So... this transcript is from `91. I've never been a Sally fan. Daytime talk always sort of made me retch because it reminded me of Group. When did Sally become the primary spokes yenta for boot-camps? Do ya'll suppose the clams have dead agented her by induction?

misbehaver:
These boot camps are the last choice for minors who don't wanna do hard time or ??
Why not them them go see if they've got it to "make" it? It bumps self esteem, maybe even garner a sense of unit integrity and the sense of being part of a team. Then, again, there will always be an abusive (to someone) aspect of the game. Bleedin' hearts worry; feed them in. Beats prison or Straight, easy.
Jason (not sanctioned)

Kathy:
There is a man named Steve A. Cartisano (a.k.a. Stephen Michaels, and a couple of other aliases that I can't think of right now) who is the owner of the TEENHELP teen therapy camps... He's along the same lines as Miller Newton.... In one article I read where he was bragging to his co-workers that he's gone big time, because he got Sally Jesse Raphael and some others to market his programs..... (I guess SAlly was a good target because if I remember correctly... I think I heard that she had a teen daughter die from something drug related, so she probably thinks shes "saving lives"  I'll get the articles and post the links in another post.

Kathy:
Here is the link:  http://www.outsidemag.com/magazine/1095/10f_deth.html

and here is the line I was talking about:

"...Horsehair was Lance Paul Jaggar, an air force vet who served as Cartisano's field director. He and another devout Mormon, Bill Henry--an Idaho acquaintance of Larry Dean Olsen's who had been active in Scouting--supervised daily operations out of Escalante, allowing Cartisano to concentrate on marketing from his Provo-area home, a lavish residence that previously had been owned by golfer Billy Casper.

A brilliant promoter, Cartisano persuaded his "good friend" Oliver North to put in an appearance during his Iran-Contra notoriety and hired a publicist who booked him on Donahue, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Geraldo. "All the big talk shows," Cartisano boasts. "They loved me. I'd go on TV with kids who'd been through the program, these beautiful 14- to 15-year-old girls who'd talk about how they'd been out on the street stealing and doing drugs and turning tricks until Challenger changed their ways."

"The television appearances were a marketing gold mine," says a former associate of Cartisano's who declined to be identified. "The phones were ringing off the hook. Parents begged him to take their kids. An incredible amount of money started rolling in. Unfortunately, Steve didn't know how to handle it."

When Cartisano would go on the road to recruit customers, alleges the ex-associate, "Sometimes he'd spend $2,000 a week to rent a Lamborghini. He'd run up $1,000-a-night hotel bills." With such expenditures, despite all the money coming in, Challenger had trouble paying its bills. Checks bounced. The Internal Revenue Service inquired about $196,000 in unpaid corporate taxes. By early 1990 Cartisano was embroiled in numerous lawsuits filed by creditors and disgruntled clients, and the state of Utah was investigating him on several fronts...."

Anonymous:
WWASP/Teen Help programs are owned by the Kay/Lichfield/Facer families. I'm unsure if Steve Cartisano has or had any connection with them. I understood his to be a separate operation from theirs. He is also banned from operating programs in the United States, so what he does have are all based out of the country now. Even so, he still uses a number of alias' to hide his connection to most of them.

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