Wellington's Paul Schofield

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Tonight, Wellington has its city commission meeting. They will be discussing the firing of their city manager, Paul Schofield, who has run the city for the past 5 years. Apparently the item was too late to put on the Agenda and some commissioners are in a tissy about that. They are afraid that it will put the city in a bad light. NO BIGGY. They could follow Lake Worth's example--NO notice at all. In fact, Lake Worth commissioners can lie to a city manager's face and then fire on the spot. At least Wellington has some class.

Read more... at the Palm Beach Post.

Read a previous blog of mine on Schofield, Mr. Sunshine and Connecting the Dots

Pugliese Padded his Pockets?

A few years ago I wrote a few blogs on Mr. Pugliese, a resident of Gulfstream, as it was highly suggested that it was he who wanted to get hold of Lake Worth's 19 acre beach property. This, of course, got my interest. He is connected through business and family connections with one of our business owners and his tentacles are wide.

Today he is back in the news for allegedly defrauding Fred Deluca of Subway fame regarding the 41,000 development of planned sprawl known as Destiny, south of Orlando in Osceola County near Yeehaw Junction, Florida. Read more... at the Palm Beach Post.

Past Lynn's Little bit of Trivia blogs written about Anthony Pugliese:

Anthony Pugliese

5 billion dollar law suit filed

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Mr. Sunshine and connecting the Dots

Mr. Sunshine and Connecting the Dots

Ms. Stanton was at a meeting yesterday with the city managers of four other cities: Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Lake Park, and Mangonia Park. It was a meeting that she initiated to discuss the tremendous cost for services with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department. Pahokee, South Bay and Belle Glade should have been invited. They can't pay for the service as it is now. After she spoke for approximately ½ hour, the City Manager of Wellington, Paul Schofield, informed everyone that the Press was invited by him and were in the audience. Surprise! Stanton was blindsided.

The "good ole boy network" is alive and prevalent in Palm Beach County. It's been here for years and the seed never seems to die. It just keeps springing up like a bad weed. Afterall, we are not the Corruption County of the Country for nothing.

Paul Schofield has been with the City of Wellington for the past 9 years or so first starting as its Director of Community Development. He became Town Manager in February 2008. It was reported several years back by the Post that he is an old drinking buddy of Anthony Masilotti as well as Daniel Miteff, who both got 5 years in the Federal Pen.

Some of you might not remember what got Miteff in trouble or his connection to corruption.

The Sun Sentinel reported on December 13, 2006 that “The third criminal defendant in the public corruption scandal alleged to have profited former County Commissioner Tony Masilotti through secret land deals is scheduled to appear in federal court in Fort Pierce this morning on 16 counts of conspiracy and fraud.

Daniel N. Miteff, 55, a civil engineer and Wellington businessman, is indicted secretly Friday by a grand jury and arrested Monday afternoon by FBI agents for his role in a Royal Palm Beach land deal. He allegedly paid Masilotti for representations he made as a public official with cash and $39,000 worth of gaming chips when the two met at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in the Bahamas in February 2004.

Miteff was charged with conspiring with Masilotti to use his power as an elected official to win a contract to develop 50 acres in Royal Palm Beach owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach for about $1 million in profits. The indictment also said Miteff lied to the grand jury on two occasions in August when questioned about the diocese deal.”

Daniel Miteff, if everyone recalls, was the front man for Anthony Pugliese when he was trying to get hold of our Lake Worth beach in order to build a hotel complex during the Romano administration here in Lake Worth.

Paul Schofield was the one who hired Paul Masilotti, Tony's bother, as Wellington's Building Inspector. You always have to follow the money to attempt to figure it all out and connect the dots.

So Mr. Schofield is a close friend of these guys so we have to wonder what his purpose really was for notifying the press and not even bothering to let the ATTENDEES KNOW UNTIL WELL AFTER THE FACT. .. certainly bad manners. Does anyone really believe it had to do with “sunshine?"