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Posted on 07/30/2020 6:22:23 AM PDT by John W
A Tennessee state senator has been charged with stealing more than $600,000 in federal funds received by a health care company she directed and using the money to pay for her wedding and other personal expenses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday charges Sen. Katrina Robinson with theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud.
Robinson, a Democrat elected to the General Assembly in 2018 from a Memphis district, is also the director of The Healthcare Institute, which provides training for jobs in the health care field, prosecutors said.
The Memphis-based school received received more than $2.2 million in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
From 2015 through 2019, Robinson stole more than $600,000 and used it to pay for her wedding and honeymoon, a 2016 Jeep Renegade for her daughter, travel and entertainment for her family, and an event for her state Senate campaign, prosecutors said.
She also used the money to pay for legal fees for her divorce, home improvements and a snow cone business operated by her children, prosecutors said.
The FBI searched the school and her home in February. FBI agents visited her home again on Tuesday, FBI spokesman Joel Siscovic said.
If convicted, Robinson faces a sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison. Robinson would be up for re-election in 2022.
Robinson, who is Black, said she will continue serving her district in the Senate “with the same integrity, the same passion that I've demonstrated since you've elected me to this office.”
“It is believed that if I were not in the position that I'm in, that if I did not champion the voices, the views and the faces that I represent, that I would not be in this moment right now,” Robinson said.
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Oh look.
A DEMOCRAT.
“Robinson, a Democrat...”
Wow. In the third sentence. Normally they’d never mention the party affiliation of a corrupted democrat, much less mention it that soon in the article. What an improvement.
Took the author until the third paragraph to mention it’s a demonrat. A republican suspect would be identified in the title.
Some reporter is probably going to get in trouble for putting that in.
Yes, Yes, and Yes
All three protected classes
How else dey gon’ gets dey money?
The reporter probably hasn't read the MSM's guidelines on reporting political events.
“When the truth comes out, everyone will know I am innocent”
Not just the party affiliation. Look at the district. Need we say more?
Robinson, a Democrat ................ stopped reading right there.
That’s ALL I needed to know...................
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Sadly, her spending choices were probably better than what her colleagues in the state senate would have spent it on.
Yes I vote republican and live in TN.
Should have spent some of the money on Jenny Craig.
How do I know?
If she were and R it would have been mentioned in the Title Headline, 1st sentence of story, and noted throughout the article.
Ops, just saw it was mentioned once in the third paragraph.
A RAT from Memphis??
Would anyone really expect anything less?
And oh, a dollar to a donut, her “ex” most likely ratted her out and turned her in....LOL
“Robinson, who is Black, said she will continue serving her district in the Senate “with the same integrity, the same passion that I’ve demonstrated since you’ve elected me to this office.”
In other words...none.
Yesterday no mention of “D”. Today a “D”. Heads will roll
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