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Fort Worth Removes Municipal Judge Facing Federal Indictment for PPP Loan Fraud

The substitute judge is facing charges related to misrepresenting the income and expenses of her business.

KIM ROBERTS JUN 26, 2024

The Fort Worth City Council unanimously voted to approve a resolution removing a substitute municipal judge who is under a federal indictment for fraud.

Thelma Anderson, who has worked as a part-time substitute judge in Fort Worth since December 13, 2022, was indicted in March on one count of wire fraud and two counts of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity, according to the Department of Justice press release.

If convicted, Anderson faces up to 40 years in federal prison.

The Fort Worth City Charter, which provides that municipal judges may be removed for “dereliction of duty, incompetency, incapacity to serve, misconduct or conduct discrediting the position,” allowed the city to terminate Anderson’s appointment, a Fort Worth city spokesperson told The Texan.

Anderson also worked as an assistant district attorney in Dallas County from 2016 to 2022, Fox4News reported.

According to the indictment, Anderson sought a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan on February 4, 2021. In the loan application, she allegedly misrepresented the company’s payroll and gross sales for her clothing boutique, Thelma Lou LLC.

Anderson represented that Thelma Lou had a monthly payroll of over $8,000 and monthly revenue of over $140,000. However, officials say, in reality Thelma Lou had a meager income and no payroll expenses.

She used the $20,000 PPP loan for personal expenses, such as food, rent, and entertainment.

In October 2021, Anderson then applied for PPP loan forgiveness, claiming she used $17,500 for payroll expenses. The full loan was forgiven.

“It was very, very easy to get money,” Richard Roper, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas who is not affiliated with this case, told Fox4. “And the only thing you had to do was essentially fill out a loan application, provide a minimal amount of documents, and the money came to you.”

According to Anderson’s LinkedIn profile, she received her law degree from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston in 2015 and is currently eligible to practice law in Texas.

Anderson’s personal attorney told Fox4News, “Ms. Anderson, a licensed attorney and decorated former prosecutor, understands how the court process works, and she is looking forward to presenting her side of the story in the near future.”

https://thetexan.news/judicial/fort-worth-removes-municipal-judge-facing-federal-indictment-for-ppp-loan-fraud/article_5839dd70-33ce-11ef-b40c-8777f88bcfc8.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5872798&forum_id=2).#49927857)

b. why are you people so stupid? you link any garbage you come across on Twitter here. you debase this once hallowed chat bort

c. https://www.texasbar.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Find_A_Lawyer&template=/Customsource/MemberDirectory/Sanction.cfm&JWID=569150

d. apparently this fraud wrote a book https://lasentinel.net/shut-up-and-prosecutor-bold-memoir-exposes-truth-behind-injustice-in-the-legal-system.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5872798&forum_id=2).#49927866)