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Ex-GOP moneyman and alleged war profiteer Harry Sargeant bankrolls son’s $1 million-wedding

Harry Sargeant III, middle, introduces then-Gov. Charlie Crist to King Abdullah of Jordan in 2007 (AP Photo)

Harry Sargeant III, middle, introduces then-Gov. Charlie Crist to King Abdullah of Jordan in 2007 (AP Photo)

Gulf Stream oilman Harry Sargeant III, who’s been called a war profiteer by a Congressional leader, is putting to good use the $200 million-plus that Pentagon officials now say they overpaid him during the Iraq War.

Sargeant, a former finance chairman for the Republican Party of Florida and a college friend of ex-Guv Charlie Crist, is throwing lavish parties in Palm Beach this weekend to celebrate the wedding of his son, 27-year-old Harry.

The younger Harry is marrying Port St. Lucie hottie Morgan Elam Saturday at The Breakers.

I’m told the elder Sargeant reserved about 60 rooms for friends and family through the weekend. In season, most rooms at the resort go for $400-plus.

With the $300-a-bottle banquet, weekend activities for all the guests and not just one, but two rehearsal dinners tonight, word is the elder Sargeant could spend upward of $1 million.

“We’re having about 280 guest at the wedding,” said the bride, 28, when reached at The Breakers today. She’s the daughter of Fort Pierce CPA James H. Elam.

“I’m wearing a Vera Wang dress. Everybody’s going to be in black and white. There’s a five-course meal after the ceremony.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Tiger Woods’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren buys $12.2 million-North Palm Beach mansion

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Elin Nordegren, the long-suffering ex-wife of philandering golfer Tiger Woods, plunked down $12.2 million for a house (above and below) in the exclusive enclave of Seminole Landing near North Palm Beach, Page2Live has learned.

The beachfront mansion dwarfs in size Woods‘ own new digs in Jupiter Island, about 10 miles north, also on the beach.

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The 30-year-old Nordegren and the ex-couple’s two children are set to leave their Orlando area home and move into 12520 Seminole Beach Road within the next few weeks.

I’m also told Nordegren, a former nanny, has been looking at private daycare centers and schools for the two ninos for weeks.

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First look: The new Charlie’s Angels in SoFla

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Introducing: The new Charlie’s Angels!

A remake of the iconic 1970s series about three crime-fighting hotties and their mysterious boss Charlie is being filmed in Miami Beach and Miami.

It stars (above, from left to right) General Hospital’s Annie Ilonzeh, 27; former Friday Night Lights star Minka Kelly, 30; and Aussie Rachael Taylor, 26.

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Taylor (left), who had small roles in flicks like Transformers, plays the daughter of a Wall Street crook who’s an expert thief herself.

Kelly, also known as New York Yankees star Derek Jeter’s main squeeze, plays a former Marine who’s the crew’s hand-to-hand combat guru.

And Ilonzeh, who was on the soap General Hospital for the past year, is the series’ martial arts hot shot.

The three were cast in January. ABC is scheduled to premiere the show in the fall.

Rumor is that Hollywood legend Robert Wagner will be Charlie, although that has yet to be confirmed.

Incidentally, the project is bankrolled by Drew Barrymore, one of the angels with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu on the two Charlie’s Angels movies.

It remains to be seen whether these newbies can hold a candle to the originals: Farrah Fawcett (below, left), Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson.

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EXCLUSIVE: Municipalities quietly fired doc named in DEA pill mill probe

Wolff, as emergency room doc at JFK Medical Center in 2001 (The Palm Beach Post)

Wolff, as emergency room doc at JFK Medical Center in 2001 (The Palm Beach Post)

Five Palm Beach County municipalities quietly fired their contracted medical director — Dr. Randall Wolff — after DEA agents reported that Wolff is under “pill mill” investigation.

Wolff, 60, of Delray Beach, is a critical care doctor who wrote EMS procedures for fire rescue in the Town of Palm Beach, North Palm Beach, Greenacres, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach and provided continuing education for emergency techs.

In Delray, Wolff’s $130,000-a-year contract also covered physicals for cops and fire fighters.

What’s more, the departments piggy-backed on Wolff’s DEA license to prescribe drugs, allowing ambulance crews on accident and crime scene to dispense dangerous drugs such as morphine, dilaudid and tranquilizers.

Now, turns out Wolff may also have been busy running a pain clinic that illegally sold powerful pain killers!

He was listed as owner of Coast to Coast Pain Management Inc. in Deerfield Beach, according to state records. And the clinic, on Hillsboro Boulevard, was raided by agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency Dec. 16.

That day, the five city halls were visited by DEA agents and some fire rescue records may have been seized.

Click here to view Wolff’s termination letter from West Palm Beach

Wolff hasn’t been arrested but his DEA license to dispense controlled substances and narcotics was pulled pending the investigation’s results, according to records. That forced the fire departments to replace Wolff in a hurry or face ordering EMTs to stop injecting drugs.

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Riviera Beach Police crime watch sergeant investigated in urination scandal

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Well-known Riviera Beach Police Sgt. Toney Williams was placed on restricted duty while Internal Affairs sleuths dissect an incident that started when residents called 9-11 to report that Williams was peeing in their yard.

Williams, a crime watch and community policing liaison, was stripped of his badge and gun Feb. 28, according to city spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown, on suspicion of a “conduct unbecoming an officer.” He’s now assigned to the records division.

“I’m not allowed to talk to anybody,” Williams said this morning.

The incident occurred about 10 p.m. Feb. 25 on West 16th Street as Williams was off-duty.

According to the internal report obtained by Page2Live, Williams went on a loud tirade laden with four-letter words when on-duty fellow officers responded to the scene, calling one of them “@#&* cracker” and shouting “I’m still a sergeant, God damn it!” as residents watched.

“I went and took a piss in those people’s backyard, what the #$&*,” Williams yelled as he stood by his parked personal car, according to the report.

While officers smelled liquor on his breath, according to the report, one source said they weren’t sure he was drunk or “just being his loud, boisterous self.”

Williams refused several offers for a ride home and the half dozen cops left the scene when he agreed to go inside a friend’s home.

No arrest was made, even minutes later, when officers spotted Williams at the wheel of his beat up, brown Caprice.

For more about the Riviera Beach PD:

Riviera Police under pressure; Arrests coming

Lucky break: Riviera cop’s sex accuser pinched

Charges against cop in early morning crash dismissed

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