Tampa Strip Clubs: Ex-Judge Stringer Disbarred In Stripper Scandal
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Posted on Friday, 16 of October , 2009 at 7:22 pm
TAMPA, FLA—In August, former appeals court judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr. pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud charges.
This week, the Florida Supreme Court disbarred him for the next five years.
Stringer, 65, admitted lying on the loan application he had submitted to obtain a $350,000 mortgage for a house in Hawaii he bought with a stripper. Stringer had stated on the loan application that none of the money being used for the down payment was borrowed when in fact he had obtained the cash the stripper, Christy Yamanaka.
Stringer, who formerly sat on the Second District Court of Appeals until he resigned in February, was formally charged in July under a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida at Tampa. He was charged with executing or attempting to execute a scheme to obtain money, assets or property from a financial institution by means of false or fraudulent pretenses or representations.