Archive for April, 2010

Tampa Strip Clubs: In deal involving ex-judge, former stripper pleads to bank fraud

Friday, April 30th, 2010

TAMPA — Federal prosecutors accepted a plea deal Friday for Christy Yamanaka, a former stripper charged with bank fraud for lying on a home loan application with a former appeals judge.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Stripper in judge scandal to plead guilty to fraud

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Stripper in judge scandal to plead guilty to fraud
Staff file photo by GORDON DEMPSEY Under Yamanaka’s plea agreement, she is unlikely to go to prison, largely because the prosecution plans to ask that she receive credit for her cooperation in the investigation.
Published: April 30, 2010
Updated: 04:39 pm
TAMPA – A stripper whose accusations brought down a state judge will plead guilty to federal bank fraud, according to a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court.
Christy Yamanaka went public two years ago about her relationship with former state appeals court Judge Thomas E. Stringer, providing News Channel 8 and The Tampa Tribune with documentation that Stringer had helped her hide her financial assets from creditors and a bankruptcy court.
Stringer pleaded guilty last year to federal bank fraud and was sentenced in November to a year of probation. He also was ordered to forfeit $222,000 and perform 150 hours of community service.

See the full article from “Tampa Tribune”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Burning should have started a week ago, former NOAA …

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Asked why officials waited for a week before conducting even a test burn, Gouget said, “Good question. Maybe complacency was the biggest issue. They probably didn’t have the materials on hand to conduct the burn, which is unconscionable.”
He said the NOAA officials involved at the Unified Command Center in Louisiana know how to respond to spills, and know burning should have started as soon as possible after the initial release was detected. Gouget said they may have been overruled.
“It may have been a political issue. The burn would make a big big plume and lots of soot. Like Valdez, the decisions to get the resources mobilized may not have occurred until it was too late,” Gouget said. “This whole thing has been a daily strip tease. At first they thought it was just the diesel, then they said the well wasn’t leaking. It’s unfortunate they didn’t get the burning going right away. They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread.”

See the full article from “The Birmingham News – al.com (blog)”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Driver is charged in crash deaths of 2

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

It was shortly after the trio left the Players Club strip club on U.S. 19 at County Line Road in Hudson when Cleaver lost control of his green 2004 Ford F-250.
Diede sat in the front passenger seat. Whisner sat in the right rear passenger seat while Cleaver raced east on Denton Avenue doing nearly twice the posted speed limit of 45 miles per hour, according to a report.

See the full article from “Tampa Tribune”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Pinellas Park police seek hit-and-run driver in fatal crash

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Anthony Bernard Peterson, 22, is wanted on charges of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash involving death and driving with a suspended or revoked license.
Peterson was involved in a hit-and-run crash at about 2:18 a.m. Aug. 24 at the intersection of 49th Street and Park Boulevard, police said.
Hours after the accident, Peterson was found at a Manatee County hospital with a broken leg. He admitted to driving a rented Chrysler 300 that blew through a red light and hit a 2001 Toyota Camry, police said.
William Trotter, who was driving the Camry, died en route to the hospital.
Peterson told police he and his family had been at a birthday party at the Bottom’s Up Gentleman’s Club earlier that night when a shooting occurred in the parking lot.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”

Tampa Escorts: Colle Maritime orders LNG escort tugs

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

April 27, 2010
Colle Maritime orders LNG escort tugs
Trinity Yachts’ subsidiary Trinity Offshore, Gulfport, Miss., is to build two RAstar 3100 terminal support/escort tugs for Colle Maritime Company.
Colle Maritime, a joint venture between Signet Maritime Corporation and Colle Towing Company, is building the tugs to fulfill a a twenty-year contract to provide marine support services to Angola LNG Supply Services (ALSS) in the Port of Pascagoula, Miss.
Designed by Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C., the tugs will each provide 80 tonnes of bollard pull and will be built to ABS XA1 Towing and Escort Service, Fire Fighting Vessel Class 1 (Fi-Fi 1), and XAMS Standards.
They will be 30.5 m long with a 12.2 m beam at deck and a molded depth of 5.5 m. The operating draft is 5.2 m.

See the full article from “Marine Log”

Tampa Escorts: Angola LNG awards Colle Maritime 20-year contract

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Colle Maritime Company of Pascagoula Mississippi, a joint venture between Signet Maritime Corporation and Colle Towing Company, has been awarded a 20-year contract to provide marine services to Angola LNG Supply Services LLC (ALSS) in the Port of Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The agreement, to commence third quarter 2011, includes options to extend for up to 10 additional years.
Utilizing their combined expertise, the joint venture between Colle and Signet will construct two highly specialized terminal support/escort tugs that will each provide 80 tonnes of bollard pull.
Designed by Robert Allan Ltd, these RAstar 3100 class tugs offer a high level of ship-handling, escort, and sea-keeping performance.
Construction will commence immediately at Trinity Offshore in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Both tugs will be built to American Bureau of Shipping Maltese Cross A1 Towing & Escort Service, Fire Fighting Vessel Class 1 (Fi-Fi 1), and Maltese Cross AMS standards. Additional tugs from the existing Signet and Colle fleets will complement these primary tugs.

See the full article from “Offshore Shipping Online”

Tampa Strip Clubs: 2010 NFL Draft: Tim Tebow Going To the Pittsburgh Steelers? Makes Sense To Me

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

The Steelers anticipated the move and signed veteran Byron Leftwich earlier in the week as an insurance policy. Rumors are now swirling that Roethlisberger may be on the trading block if the right offer comes their way.
I don’t know who’d be willing to trade for the guy, considering he’s an elite level talent, which would warrant giving up a heck of a lot to get him, when he is only eligible for 10 games next season.
So I offer up a solution to the Steelers’ predicament.
What quarterback in this year’s draft is big, with somewhat unorthodox mechanics but an uncanny knack for winning just like Big Ben?
Yes, it is Tebow. And he comes with a bonus!
Unlike Roethlisberger who, between motorcycle escapades, strip club extravaganzas and sports bar bathroom run-ins, has found his way into trouble much too frequently, Tebow comes with a No Baggage Guaranteed plan.

See the full article from “Bleacher Report”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: The planner (things to do)

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

FREE Here’s the story: Yarn-spinners from across the country will bring to life folk tales, fables, ghost stories, tall tales, fairy tales and maybe even Uncle Charlie’s fish tales at the Storytelling Festival. Also see a special performance by Eth-Noh-Tec, a San Francisco-based kinetic story theater group that blends storytelling, physical theater and choreography. It’s taking place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Hillsborough High School, 5000 N Central Ave. in Tampa. See tampastory.org.
$5 Embrace your inner beatnik and join in this celebration of National Poetry Month with readings, games, a “poetry brothel,” raffles, music, art and a birthday cake for William Shakespeare. It’s from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at Tre Amici @ the Bunker, 1907 N 19th St. $5 donation. Proceeds support YellowJacket Press. For information, e-mail russo15@juno.com.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”

Tampa Escorts: HHS students to stage ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Millie takes comfort in the friendship of Miss Dorothy Brown, an orphan played by Megan Richason, who tries to tell her to forget the wealth and follow her heart, and an eccentric widow and once famous singer named Muzzy Van Hossmere, played by Kennedy Vaaler.
“I try to convince Millie to not judge a book by its cover and don’t give up love for money,” Vaaler said. Later on in the play, it is revealed that Muzzy is the strange link between this group of young adults.
Somehow the house mother, Mrs. Meers, played by junior Kaylee Burrows, learns both Dorothy and Millie are orphans and plans to capture them and sell them into white slavery.
“I’m eccentric, sexy, hot, and a ham,” Burrows said. “I play an actress that didn’t make it. So I am getting my revenge. I drug the orphan girls and ship them to Hong Kong to be street walkers.”

See the full article from “Courier-Life”