Steve Stenger was born in the St. Louis Hills neighborhood located in southwest St. Louis, but was brought up in Affton, Missouri. His father was a union telephone lineman with Southwestern Bell. Steve Stenger graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School and briefly toured as a singer with two local bands, The Stand and The Painted Faces. Stenger then went to University of Missouri-St. Louis and majored in accounting. After that, he became a certified public accountant and went to law school at St. Louis University. After law school, he got a job as a lawyer and CPA at Ernst & Young.
Political career
Steve Stenger was the prosecuting attorney of a city government from 2005-2008. He was on the St. Louis County Council from 2009 to 2015. He represented the sixth district, which contained about 145,000 people in south St. Louis County. He became Chairman of the Council in 2011. In 2014, he defeated Charlie Dooley, a long-time incumbent, during the Democratic primaries for St Louis County Executive. He proceeded to win the St. Louis County Executive general election, narrowly edging out his Republican opponent Rick Stream. As of 9.11.19, Former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger must turn himself in at a federal prison camp in South Dakota in 10 days to begin serving his 46-month prison sentence, a court filing Wednesday says. The minimum security camp in Yankton is almost 600 miles from St. Louis, and houses 479 inmates. Stenger’s days will be governed by a 69-page prison handbook that controls everything from when he makes his bed and empties his trash to how many pairs of prison-issued socks he can possess. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/stenger-must-turn-himself-in-at-south-dakota-prison-camp/article_24e79a6a-5b93-5b73-a601-dcf5f5a72aaa.html He took office as St. Louis County Executive in 2015. Stenger announced his resignation on April 29, 2019, after being federally indicted on three counts of honest services bribery and mail fraud. On August 9, 2019, following his guilty plea to all charges in the indictment, Stenger was sentenced to serve 46 monthis in federal prison, and pay a fine of $250,000. The prosecutor in the case, Assistant United States AttorneyHal Goldsmith, had successfully investigated and prosecuted a number of other elected officials, including Missouri Governor Roger Wilson, Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith and State Representative Steve Brown, and Missouri State Representative T.D. el Amin On May 28, 2019, Stenger was disbarred by the Supreme Court of Missouri.
