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Masilotti charged
WEST PALM BEACH — Former Palm Beach County Commission Chairman Tony Masilotti faces up to five years in prison and forfeiture of $9.5 million in cash and real estate for his leading role in a land deal conspiracy that stretched from 2000 to this past June, federal prosecutors said Monday.Masilotti, who in a sorrowful resignation letter said he will plead guilty, is expected to surrender Friday at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, where he will appear for the first time before a judge. Still to be determined: when Masilotti formally will plead guilty and when he'll be dispatched to prison.
.Schumacher rules out return to Formula One
BERLIN: Germany's seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher has, for the first time, ruled out a return to Formula One saying the sport is so fast-moving that it is impossible to suddenly jump back into the cockpit."The Formula One rules are constantly changing. The technical side of things, the motors. Once you are out once you are out for good," Schumacher said.
The 37-year-old Schumacher retired after finishing fourth in the Brazilian Grand Prix at the end of the season. It was his 249th and final race after 16 years in Formula One.
Schumacher had previously said that he may come out of retirement to race again, citing former world champions Niki Lauda and Mika Hakkinen as an inspiration, but now seems ready to settle into the family life.
Grower paid for dirt on Masilotti
Callery-Judge Grove, a citrus grower seeking county commission approval for development of its western property, admitted Thursday that it paid roughly $500,000 last year for a private investigation of former County Commission Chairman Tony Masilotti.In a statement, the company and its law firm, Lewis, Longman & Walker, said they hired a private detective code-named "Cobra" after Masilotti attempted to shake down Callery-Judge for his vote.
.February Point awarded ‘Best Waterside Development of the Year ...
February Point on Great Exuma in The Bahamas has been voted the ‘Best Waterside Development of the Year 2006' by Caribbean World magazine.Promoted by Black Pearl Ventures, the exclusive residential resort of February Point nestles in a paradise location with each of its waterside villa offering stunning vistas of white sandy beaches and azure blue seas.
On receiving the prestigious Award, British-born Guy Newman of Bahamian property promoters, Black Pearl Ventures, said, “It is a fabulous honour for February Point to be voted ‘Best Waterside Development of the Year' by Caribbean World and its readers.
“Both unspoilt and private, The Exumas offers the best of island life and at February Point it is accessible from each and every villa via your own private jetty.
Crooked Island - Off the beaten track
Crooked Island is one of the group of three - Crooked Island, Acklins and Long Cay which are jewels in the southern Bahamas. Crooked Island and Acklins are enclosed in a shallow lagoon known the Bight of Acklins. The Lucayan Arawaks called Crooked Island Samoete which was visited by Columbus on 21 October, 1492. He was told that it contained gold but although he remarked on its beauty, he did not find any gold. The Loyalists: Crooked Island and Acklins were not permanently settled until the coming of the Loyalists in the late 1780s. Very soon after their arrival they set up over forty cotton plantations employing over a thousand slaves. Daniel McKinnen, a British traveller, in 1802-1803, wrote that the Loyalists had settled and established forty plantations with between 2000 to 3000 acres of cotton fields and 1000 slaves.
Masilotti brother quits job at village
WELLINGTON — The brother of ex-Palm Beach County Commission Chairman Tony Masilotti resigned as a village building inspector Thursday afternoon, just as his bosses were preparing to fire him for not disclosing his financial ties to controversial land deals.In a pre-termination letter that was to be hand-delivered Thursday to Paul Masilotti, 56, village officials argue that the former inspector had acted unethically and broken village rules by accepting expensive gifts, not disclosing his financial interests in a nearby development and essentially embarrassing Wellington.
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