Mahoney

Is former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney’s midlife crisis not over yet?

He reportedly tried to pick up Russian women in a Palm Beach hotspot recently by claiming to be a “retired, respected congressman.”

But while Mahoney acknowledges being at the restaurant, he said he was there for Haiti fundraiser — not to hit on ladies.

A source at the Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County’s beachside wingding the other night told me about Mahoney’s recent foray into the Palm Beach hangout Bice.

Remember Mahoney? The 53-year-old slipped into the U.S. Congress in 2006, when the then-congressman-for-life Mark Foley got caught text-messaging sweet nothings to male pages.

Mahoney, who represented parts of Palm Beach County and most of Martin County, lost reelection to current Congressman Tom Rooney after it was revealed that the then-married Mahoney paid off a former mistress to silence her, and was seeing another paramour, Martin County’s engineering boss Kim Roden.

Word is the divorced Mahoney is now seriously hooked up with Roden — but then this little tale below makes you wonder.

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Exline

Disgraced former West Palm Beach City Commissioner Jim Exline this week filed a lawsuit against a woman who caused a chain collision in Lake Worth last year, ultimately injuring him.

I’m told the woman’s insurance company, State Farm, wants to pay Exline $6,500 for the medical bills that resulted from the June crash. Exline’s bills are at least five times higher, and counting. So he sued.

Exline, 45, made news in 2007 when he resigned his seat and pleaded guilty to tax evasion. He was sent to a federal prison camp near Atlanta for 10 months.

Although he wouldn’t comment about the accident or the lawsuit, Exline, an urban planner by trade, says he has been struggling since he rejoined society in April 2008.

“There’s absolutely no planning going on out there,” he said today. “I’m just waiting it out, like a lot of people. I’m a planner. That’s what I do. I don’t know anything else.”

And he’s still nursing the injuries that occurred near downtown Lake Worth, when a Hyundai plowed into another car, which then hit Exline’s Jaguar.

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You nasty thing, Charlie Crist!

The guv went on Greta Van Susteren’s On The Record on Fox News Monday night wondering if his opponent for the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, used the Republican party’s credit card to get his back waxed.

Yikes!

Crist is behind in the polls, but still!

Crist matter-of-factly threw that line at Greta while the two discussed the recent revelations that Rubio had used a party card for personal expenses. Check out the exchange, and vote in the poll below.

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Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh is pulling an Alec Baldwin!

Ten years after the staunch Democrat star of 30 Rock swore he’d leave the country if George W. Bush won the White House, GOP leader Limbaugh said on his show Monday that he, too, would leave — if Prez. Barack Obama’s health care reform becomes law of the land!

Rush Limbaugh with galpal Kathryn Rogers Saturday at Mar-a-Lago

Limbaugh said on his show (WJNO-1290 AM) Monday that he’d hightail it outtahere if doctors were banned from seeing private patients under the new health care plan.

“If it passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I’m leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica,” Limbaugh said.

But like Baldwin, who never made good on his promise even after two terms of Bush, Rush seems hesitant, and clarified his statement in this e-mail to Page2Live this morning: “If U.S. doctors aren’t allowed by law to see patients in private practice outside the coming government health care monopoly, I will consider leaving the country for any major medical treatment.”

Costa Rica?

El Rushbo tells me that insurance companies are already bankrolling clinics in that Central American country in anticipation of the reform.

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Rush's ad

Rush Limbaugh cares as much for baby turtles as he does for the Democrats’ jackass.

Palm Beach radio talker Limbaugh is sick of laws protecting the giant marine reptiles, and he wants everyone to know.

Limbaugh is buying newspaper ads this week — one in today’s Shiny Sheet and another later this week in the Palm Beach Post – to poke fun at the Town of Palm Beach’s policy that force the 300 or so households lucky enough to live on the beach to turn off outdoors lights from March 1 until October 31.

Within that time span, giant sea turtles — including several endangered species — dig the sand in the middle of the night to lay eggs, and their babies hatch in early fall.

Artificial lights are known to confuse the animals. They use the moon to navigate to nesting grounds then back to the ocean.

The Conservative lightning-rod Limbaugh lives on a $50 million-plus beach compound that includes a 32,000-square-foot home smack dab in the middle of turtle country. (see it here)

In his ad, Limbaugh mentions a phony group, the Turtle Preservation Society of Palm Beach, welcoming back turtles and hatchlings.

“The lights are off in eager anticipation of your arrival in May,” the ad reads.

A picture show a turtle roaming the sand in broad daylight.

“Kathryn (Rogers, Limbaugh’s galpal) and I bought a full page ad in the Shiny Sheet Sunday to make a subtle protest of all the local and state ordinances requiring people who live on the beach in Palm Beach to go dark EIGHT months of the year (!!!!!) for sea the turtles,” Limbaugh told Page2Live in an email.

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You, too, could live like Rush -- for $13.95 million (Click on the photo for a tour)

Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh is severing some of his ties with the Big Apple.

He’s selling the pied-a-terre he’s owned on the 20th floor of a Fifth Avenue skyscraper since 1994.

According to the New York Web site Gawker, the Conservative leader wants $13.95 million for it. Corcoran Group Real Estate has the listing.

For that kind of dough, the buyer will get 4,600 square feet, four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths and a staff bedroom. (See it here)

Maintenance ain’t cheap, at $7,823 a month. Property taxes? Try $72,000 a year!

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Damon, talking with for Barack Obama campaign workers in 2008 in West Palm Beach (Taylor Jones/The Palm Beach Post)

Of all the celebs who hitched their fame to then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, few worked harder than actor Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity, Green Zone). Damon, 39, popped up all over South Florida in the few weeks leading to the historic election, including in West Palm Beach.

Well, this is 2010, and Damon says he is “disappointed” with Obama.

“Politics is compromise,” Damon told the New York Daily News. “I’m disappointed in the health care plan and the troop buildup in Afghanistan. Everyone feels a little let down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away. But real change comes from everyday people. You can’t wait for a leader.”

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Lisboa's booking mug (Courtesy PBSO)

Page2Live broke the news in December that a Palm Beach Sheriff’s Deputy took state troopers on a car chase down the turnpike, from Martin County to Lake Worth. Five-year veteran undercover Carlos Lisboa was reassigned to patrol and his car privileges were revoked.

Now, more than two months later, Lisboa was arrested and charged with fleeing, attempting to elude and obstruction of justice. Lisboa, 32, claimed he was on police business when the troopers clocked him at 91 mph and attempted to pull him over for more than 30 miles.

Fact is, he wasn’t on police business.

Now he faces jail time, and the unemployment line.

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Trump

Trump International Golf Club member Harry Theodoracopulos heard some dreaded words in a letter from club owner Donald Trump last year.

“Harry, I don’t know what your problem is,” Trump wrote (here and here), ” . . . due to you inappropriate conduct, your use privileges and membership rights are being suspended at Trump International Golf Club immediately.”

But then, Trump heard from Theodoracopulos words he dreads just as much: Pay up, dude! You owe me $204,800!

All that’s in a lawsuit that Theodoracopulos filed against Trump last week in a Palm Beach County Circuit Court, claiming that Trump didn’t follow club bylaws when he told him to take a walk. The lawsuit claims that the Greek businessman’s ouster caused him “great embarrassment and humiliation.” He was given a few minutes to clean out his locker and escorted out of the West Palm Beach club by a security guard.

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So now, she’s a “celebrity socialite.”

Well, she’s been called worse things lately.

Rachel Uchitel, a.k.a. Tiger Woods‘ No. 1 mistress, is hosting her own birthday party at the nightclub 251 Palm Beach (ex-251 Sunrise) Jan. 29 in Palm Beach.

And as you can see on the invitation, she’s described as “celebrity socialite.”

Ex-queeze me?

“She’s in her moment right now,” said 251 Palm Beach owner Gus Renny. “She hasn’t been milking it like other people who get their 15 minutes, but she’s well-known. There’s nothing she can do about that.”

Actually, Renny says, he’s not even paying Uchitel to party at his watering-hole. For years now, the likes of  Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian or that sorry bunch from Jersey Shore have been paid just to show up at nightclubs.

“She just asked me for a safe corner where she can party with her friends,” Renny said, “and we won’t let people in with cameras. I don’t think people realize what a down-to-earth, nice person she is.”

Even if Uchitel, a VIP nightclub hostess by trade, isn’t making money on this party, Renny hopes to. Those sitting at VIP tables will be asked to buy a minimum of two bottles of booze. Vodka bottles start at $220 per and Cristal champagne sells for $570 per bottle.

Uchitel, the granddaughter of a Midwest banker who moved to Palm Beach with a wife younger than his daughters, was born Jan. 30, 1975. She first burst on the media scene in the aftermath of 9-11 when a picture of her in tears looking for her fiance, a victim of the World Trade Center collapse, ran in newspapers throughout the world.  Uchitel then returned into the public’s consciousness in late November, when the Boca-based National Enquirer outed her as one of golfer Woods’ mistresses.

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