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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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.
Well, at least she’s consistent, she’s continuing onward with the same integrity she has had since the election, in other words, no integrity whatsoever, and her passion will be theft.
Well she didnt have the Haitian Relief Fund to pay for her wedding...cmon man....she is a black demonrat woman...three layers of privilege....
Sticky, stinky democrat fingers...all alike, the lot.
...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.”
Translation: Without pandering, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to steal on this scale.”
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.
Just taking her share....
Here she is admitting it was a crime of opportunity, so stupid.
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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