STC EDITION -FINAL B2 THE PALM BEACH POST REAL NEWS STARTS HERE FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017 ENTERPRISE FLORIDA Water district head to lead Enterprise Florida position to Antonacci rather than to go through a search. In addition to his nearly two years at the Water Management District, Antonac-ci's background includes two years as Scott's general counsel and an eight-month stint as Palm Beach County state attorney. Connally noted that Antonacci expressed a desire to the governor's office for the Enterprise Florida position. "The more I learned about Pete I learned things like his ability to quickly get up to speed on topics that may not be naturally as familiar to him," Connally said during a conference call with the committee. "Some would call that a "My experience with Pete is he is able to negotiate a lot of good deals.
That's part of what you have to do both as general counsel and running the water management district," Scott told the committee members during the call. "I think he will do a good job. He'll work hard. He'll get deals done. And he'll also be a good team player.
An Enterprise Florida board meeting is being planned for next week. Antonacci served as Scott's general counsel from January 2013 until early 2015. He took over the water district, with its approximately $660 million budget, in September 2015. Connally, chairman, president and CEO of Gulf Power, Scott on the future of the agency at a time when House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O' Lakes, was pushing to eliminate Enterprise Florida. Scott and Corcoran battled for months about the future of Enterprise Florida, with the House blocking Scott's request for $85 million for business incentives.
But they eventually reached a compromise that created an $85 million funding pool for infrastructure projects and job training that could boost economic development. Antonacci's job offer still must be approved by the Enterprise Florida Board of Directors, which is chaired by Scott. said he was comfortable in bringing forward the recommendation without going through the normal application process, which he said could take months. "I think it's important we move forward pretty quickly," Connally said. "Many of you might recall the last time we posted the job.
It would take two or three months to go through a long-term posting. Given the circ*mstances and urgency to fill the job, I'm very comfortable bringing his name before you as the next president and CEO." Between working for the governor and water district, Antonacci worked as a registered lobbyist with the law firm Gray Robinson. Peter Antonacci was Palm Beach County state attorney, briefly. EtyJimTurner News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE Described by Gov. Rick Scott as someone who can "get deals done," South Florida Water Management District Executive Director Pete Antonacci has been tapped as the next leader of the business-recruitment agency Enterprise Florida.
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Hart pointed to a difference of opinions with Unfortunately for him, this included even some statements that supported the version of events that Skier, his own attorney, had recounted to jurors at the start of the trial. Skier told jurors Telisme and Stanisclasse fought three times on that night before Thanksgiving in 2015, when they, Dexter Dunbar and a group of other fighters who had all met at Elite Boxing in suburban West Palm Beach went out to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Skier said Stanisclasse had bested the amateur Telisme in their first fight of the night and continued pummeling him a second time before the third fight outside Stanisclasse's apartment prompted Telisme to shoot, but Telisme told the jury there was only one fight. This difference was not lost on Assistant State Attorney Reid Scott, who on cross-examination Thursday called Telisme a liar outright. Telisme said he believed the first altercation, outside a downtown West Palm Beach pizza parlor, was a "wrestling match.
And they didn't fight outside a nearby nightclub later that night either, although he said by then he from him and they both fell to the ground. Elam also had been arrested Feb. 25 in Miami Beach on reckless driving and marijuana possession charges. Records show those charges also were dropped. Elam led Dwyer to its first state football championship in 2009, played for the University of Florida and was then picked in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft by the Ravens.
After his Miami Beach arrest, the Ravens said he was no longer playing with the team. hwinstonpbpost.com Twitter: hannahwinston Telisme repeatedly says his statements made under duress. By Daphne Duret Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH The image of mixed martial arts champion Stan Stanis-classe's bloody, lifeless body on the floor of his Palm Beach Shores apartment had been on a projector screen at least twice this week before Palm Beach County Assistant State Attorney Reid Scott showed it to jurors again during closing arguments of Darrell Telisme's first-degree murder trial. Still, there was something about seeing her son that way, at that moment, that caused Stanisclasse's mother to let out a stunned, pained wail from her seat in the courtroom gallery. Her mouth stayed open, tears streaming down her face as those with her led her from the courtroom.
As the others held her up by her arms, she stumbled through the double doors. From his seat at the defense table, Telisme, an amateur boxer who said he considered Stanisclasse more a CRIME killing martial arts. The dispute between the two friends that night allegedly arose over who was the better fighter. According to prosecutors, Telisme was telling the professional fighter that he could beat him up. But Telisme, on the stand, said it was Stanisclasse making the taunts, adding that Stanisclasse's skill as a fighter made him "someone you don't want to play with." "He's telling you that story here today because that's what convenient for him," Assistant State Attorney Kris-ten Grimes told jurors in closing arguments.
Skier rejected those claims, attributing Telisme's testimony to an unsophisticated thought process that shouldn't obscure the fact that he has consistently said he was in fear for his life. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Col-bath sent jurors home for the night after closing arguments Thursday, asking them to come back early today to begin deliberations. dduretpbpost.com TO YOU BRING HOME had drunk four beers and two Long Island iced teas. But if a punch to the mouth when Telisme went to retrieve his Playstation from Stanisclasse marked the first punch Stanisclasse landed that night, Scott asked, then why was Stanisclasse's hand already bandaged with toilet paper when Telisme shot him immediately afterward? "Either you were lying to the detectives then, or you're lying to the jury now," Scott said. "I was under duress," Telisme repeated for about the 12th time regarding the statement he made after the shooting.
"I felt like, I was being rushed and being forced to answer certain questions. To me everything, to me, was going fast," Telisme had told jurors as Skier questioned him earlier. Stanisclasse, 23, had a professional record of 9-0, with eight knockouts, at the time of his death. Whereas Telisme was a boxer, Stanisclasse was also trained in both wrestling and mixed NO NEED THE WE'LL HELP Darrell Telisme claims he fired his gun in self-defense. brother than a friend, stared ahead at the jurors who will today begin deciding whether he was a murderer or a scared man forced to shoot in self-defense.
"He punched me in my mouth, and I was in fear for my life," Telisme told jurors Thursday, testifying in his own defense. "I reached for my firearm and swung at him with it." "And it went off?" defense attorney Scott Skier asked. "Yes, sir," he said. The exchange marked what was easily the smoothest part of Telisme's time on the stand. More often he appeared flummoxed, hesitant and sometimes unresponsive.
But through it all, Telisme seemed certain of two things that he shot the 23-year-old Stanisclasse in self-defense and, as he told jurors over and over, that everything he told detectives about the shooting were statements made "under duress." Matt Elam, 25, was charged in incident with his girlfriend. Delray Beach police said Elam went to his girlfriend's mother's home on Angler Drive, west of Congress Avenue and south of Lake Ida Road, to pick up a car when the fight started. The argument turned physical and Elam took his girlfriend's iPhone 7 Plus. When he grabbed the phone which he said he paid for the woman tried to get it back Charges of theft, battery dropped against ex-football standout Elam By Hannah Winston Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Charges have been dropped against Matt Elam, the former Dwyer High and University of Florida football star, according to Palm Beach County court records. Elam, 25, was arrested in May on charges of grand theft and domestic battery after an incident with his girlfriend in Delray Beach.
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