Katrina Robinson was born on January 13,1981 and is an American former politician who served in the Tennessee Senate from the 33rd district from 2019 to 2022 as a member of the Democratic Party.
21 Facts About Katrina Robinson
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Katrina Robinson was the first sitting member of the state senate to be indicted since Operation Tennessee Waltz and later became the first person to ever be expelled from the state senate.
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Katrina Robinson was elected to the state senate in the 2018 election after defeating incumbent Senator Reginald Tate in the Democratic primary.
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Katrina Robinson was indicted on forty-eight charges relating to the embezzlement of $600,000 from federal grants to her nursing school in 2020.
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Katrina Robinson was found guilty on four counts of wire fraud in 2021.
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Katrina Robinson was born on January 13,1981, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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In 2015, Katrina 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.
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Katrina Robinson received a total of $2.2 million in federal grants from 2015 to 2019.
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In 2018, Katrina Robinson was elected to the Tennessee Senate from the 33rd district as a member of the Democratic Party.
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On January 29,2018, Katrina Robinson announced that she would run in the Democratic primary.
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Katrina Robinson defeated incumbent Senator Reginald Tate in the Democratic primary and faced no opposition in the general election.
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Tate had been censured by the Shelby County Democratic Party and Katrina Robinson was endorsed by United States Representative Steve Cohen and Senate Minority Leader Sara Kyle.
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In 2016, an investigation into Katrina Robinson was started after an anonymous complaint to the United States Department of Health and Human Services reported that she had used $550 of federal grant money to purchase a Louis Vuitton handbag.
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Katrina Robinson was accused of stealing $600,000 from $2.2 million in federal grants given to her nursing school from 2015 to 2019.
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Katrina Robinson was the first sitting member of the Tennessee Senate to be indicted since Operation Tennessee Waltz in 2005.
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Katrina Robinson was sentenced on March 18,2022 to one year supervised release.
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Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally called for Katrina Robinson to resign following her conviction.
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Katrina Robinson became the first member of the state senate to be expelled when the state senate voted twenty-seven to five, with all Republicans voting in favor and all Democrats voting against, on February 2,2022, to remove her.
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In February 2023, Katrina Robinson was sued by the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance to collect financial penalties resulting from her failure to file 2020 and 2021 financial disclosures documents.
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Katrina Robinson was initially assessed a $7,500 fine in August, 2021 for not filing required campaign disclosure documents for 2020.
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The registry then added a $10,000 fine after Katrina Robinson again failed to submit the documents in 2021.