New Charges Filed Against Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson

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New Charges Filed Against Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson, Two Others in Fraud and Money Laundering Case



https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/ne ... -fraud-and





She was indicted on 48 charges relating to the embezzlement of $600,000 from federal grants to her nursing school.

In 2015, Robinson founded The Healthcare Institute, a nursing college, and received $1.6 million in grants from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She received a total of $2.2 million in federal grants from 2015 to 2019.[4][5] The Healthcare Institute started with two students and later expanded to over six hundred students.


In 2016, an investigation into Robinson was started after an anonymous complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services reported that she had used $550 of federal grant money to purchase a Louis Vuitton handbag. On February 21 and July 28, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed search warrants at Robinson's house and nursing school. On July 30, Robinson was indicted on 48 charges, 24 charges of theft and embezzlement from government programs, and 24 charges of wire fraud, by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Robinson was accused of stealing $600,000 from $2.2 million in federal grants given to her nursing school from 2015 to 2019. She is the first sitting member of the Tennessee Senate to be indicted since Operation Tennessee Waltz in 2005.

On August 12, she plead not guilty