Name Stu Voigt | ||
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Date of birth (1948-08-12) August 12, 1948 (age 67) NFL draft 1970 / Round: 10 / Pick 259 Education | ||
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Stu Voigt born Stuart Alan Voigt is a former NFL tight end. Voigt was born in 1948 in the Westmorland district of Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Madison West High School in 1966, where he was an all-state running back and track and field standout. His state record in shot put of 66 feet 7 inches, set in 1966, was not broken until 2005. He accepted a football scholarship to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was a star halfback and tight end on some of the worst teams in Badger history, which won just three games from 1967 - 1969.
In 1970, Voigt was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings and played in three Super Bowls before retiring after the 1980 season. From 1981-1990, 1997-2000, he was a color commentator on Vikings radio broadcasts.
He is the former Chairman of the Board of First Commercial Bank in Bloomington, Minnesota. In April 2006 he approved a loan increase and extension to Hennessy Financial, LLC owner Jeffrey Gardner, who personally owed him 4.5 million dollars. Gardner failed to disclose the debt.
After facing charges in a Ponzi scheme: two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud; four counts of mail fraud; five counts of bank fraud; and seven counts of giving false statements on a loan application. He also faced sixteen counts of making monetary transactions in criminally-derived property, two counts of making false statements to the FDIC .
A federal jury convicted Voigt on one count of bank fraud. He was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine by U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz. He is currently (1/5/2017) serving a six-month sentence at Duluth FPC (release date 5/26/17).
