Ex-Judge Stringer Disbarred In Stripper Scandal
Posted 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.
Stringer waived his right to be charged by indictment before a federal grand jury. Assets to be forfeited include a money judgment in the amount of $222,362 representing the amount of the assets obtained by the bank fraud.
Despite his felony conviction, it is expected Stringer will receive his full pension but he will lose his right to vote.
Stringer resigned in February, a month after formal disciplinary proceedings were filed against him in Florida Supreme Court by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission regarding his financial dealings with exotic dancer Yamanaka, 47.
In March, following Stringer’s resignation and the stipulation that he would never again serve as a judge, the JQC dismissed its charges.
In March, 2008, Yamanaka had alleged that not only had Stringer had a 15-year “friendship” with her that started in 1995 and included sexual relations, but that he had helped her hide assets from creditors. She claimed that Stringer took her money and owes her hundreds of thousands of dollars. He initially denied it.
Stringer is due to sentenced on Nov. 13. The maximum sentence is 30 years followed by five years of supervised release. However, federal prosecutors have recommended no prison time but the final decision rests in the hands of U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich. Stringer remains free on his own recognizance.
Stringer was one of the three members of the 2nd District Court of Appeals that ratified the dehydration death of brain injured Terri Schindler Schiavo, handing down a decision on June 3, 2003, supporting the order of judicial homicide issued by Pinellas County Probate Court Judge George Greer at the behest of one of America’s most infamous husbands and adulterers, Michael Schiavo.
She was put to death by dehydration when her feeding tube was removed on March 18, 2005. She died 13 days later.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2009/07/23/stringer_fraud/
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2009/02/11/stringer_resigns/
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2008/03/16/judicial-hypocrisyschiavo-stringer-and-sex/ 10-16-09
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