Browsing Tag Elizabeth Fago
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15 May 2013 at 11 : 05 AM
FAU President Mary Jane Saunders Resigns Suddenly!
Mary Jane Saunders, the embattled president of the Boca Raton-based Florida Atlantic University, is resigning her post -- two years before her contract ends. In her letter to employees and students, Saunders cited the "fiercely negative media coverage" and several controversies that made the school into a national laughingstock. Her letter reads: ...
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5 May 2013 at 14 : 46 PM
EDITORIAL: GOP Pols Should Quit Imposing Elizabeth Fago Smith on Taxpayers!
For the second time in less than a decade, a governor tried to impose Palm Beach Gardens businesswoman Elizabeth Fago Smith onto the taxpaying public -- and for the second time, a governor was embarrassed. How does the word "enough" sound just about now? Businesswoman Fago Smith finally declined her appointment by Gov. Rick Scott to the board of ...
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4 May 2013 at 13 : 21 PM
Fago Smith Turns Down Florida Atlantic Gig After Gossip Extra Stories!
One day after the publication of a Gossip Extra exclusive about the tighter-then-claimed relationship between embattled Florida Atlantic University President Mary Jane Saunders and Palm Beach Gardens businesswoman Elizabeth Fago Smith, Fago Smith declined her gubernatorial appointment to the Boca Raton school's board of trustees! In a brief ...
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16 April 2013 at 12 : 42 PM
FAU Scandal: Is Prez MJ Saunders Fudging Truth on Trustee?
Florida Atlantic University President Mary Jane Saunders acts like she can't be blamed for the recent appointment as school trustee of a Palm Beach Gardens businesswoman with so many skeletons in her closet that she might as well buy a cemetery. Yet, statements by two prominent men who supported Fago Smith's nomination show otherwise! Saunders ...
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8 April 2013 at 13 : 34 PM
New FAU Scandal? Controversial GOP Fundraiser on Board of Trustees!
A Palm Beach Gardens businesswoman once married to the head of a drug cartel was appointed to the Florida Atlantic University board of trustees last week. What's more, the spotty financial history of 61-year-old Elizabeth Fago Smith includes a trail of unpaid bills and taxes that had local leaders question her appointment to two high-profile ...
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21 January 2013 at 15 : 48 PM
Palm Beach? What a Circus!
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s fundraiser gala in Palm Beach had a distinct circus atmosphere over the weekend. Acrobats hung from the ceiling of the Mar-a-Lago ballroom while guests munched on lobster. Jugglers wowed those at the pre-dinner cocktail. And women in bubbles walked across the pool. The Cirque Du Palm Beach, as the ...
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20 September 2012 at 14 : 08 PM
Unpaid Taxes, Bills Fell Mitt Romney Moneychick
Tonight's fundraiser for would-be president Mitt Romney in North Palm Beach is being chaired by local millionaire Elizabeth Fago. It's a return to the forefront of politics for Fago after years under the radar. What happened? In 2004, Fago, now 61, was one of the area's most powerful women. The owner of a chain of nursing homes, ...
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20 September 2012 at 13 : 09 PM
Is Mitt Romney’s North Palm $hindig a Land Mine?
If presidential wannabe Mitt Romney's controversial fundraiser at hedge fund boss Marc Leder's Boca house had potential for a backlash, wait until you hear about what Romney will find tonight in north Palm Beach County. The Republican candidate is scheduled to raise beaucoup bucks in two events at the Seminole Landing beachside neighborhood of ...
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23 June 2004 at 12 : 17 PM
Money Woes Dog GOP Moneychick Elizabeth Fago
At the time Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Elizabeth Fago to a board that oversees the spending of the state's $310 million contribution for the Scripps biotech project, a company managed by the Palm Beach Gardens businesswoman had failed to pay the federal government $1.3 million in payroll taxes. And as Fago and her biggest company were donating hundreds of ...
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13 June 2004 at 12 : 27 PM
PBG Businesswoman Elizabeth Fago Oversees $310 Millions Government Investment
Elizabeth Fago, the Palm Beach Gardens businesswoman who went from near-unknown to one of the state's most visible women in less time than it takes to spell "overachiever," works at a desk bearing this sign: "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History!" Making history - or at least putting her stamp on it - is well within the grasp of this self-made woman ...
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