Tampa Strip Clubs: Ex-Judge Gets Probation, $250 Fine For Bank Fraud
November 14, 2009Former appeals court judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr., who copped a plea in August to federal bank fraud charges for lying on a loan application he had submitted in order to obtain a $350,000 mortgage for a house in Hawaii he bought with a stripper, got a sweetheart deal when he was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabath A. Kovachevich.
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Kovachevich told Stringer, 65, that he was to be commended, apparently for taking the plea deal after prosecutors and the paper trail caught him red handed when the stripper blew the whistle on the former judge.
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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 from the stripper, Christy Yamanaka.