Scum conservative commentator Karyn Turk admits to stealing mom's Social Security

[Floyd R. Turbo]

WEST PALM BEACH - Fresh from hosting a fund-raiser for the legal defense of Republican operative Roger Stone, conservative media commentator Karyn Turk on Friday admitted she stole her 83-year-old mother’s Social Security checks.

Looking relaxed and unperturbed, Karyn Turk pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a single charge of Social Security fraud. Turk, who was crowned Mrs. Florida 2016 and touts her involvement in charities, faces a maximum one-year jail term and possible $100,000 fine when she is sentenced on Dec. 13.

Because the charge is a misdemeanor, the 47-year-old Highland Beach woman who uses social media and her radio and television shows to defend all things Republican would not lose her ability to vote - a right she described as “very important to me.”

Instead of using $17,300 in government checks to pay for the care of her mother who was ravaged by dementia, Turk used the money for herself, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Adrienne Rabinowitz.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190927/conservative-commentator-karyn-turk-admits-to-stealing-momrsquos-social-security

[MineralMan]

1. Sounds typical for that type.

"What Mom doesn't know can't hurt her, right?"

It's sort of defines a Republican "operative" that she'd steal from her own mother, I think.

[gopiscrap]

2. why wouldn't it be a felony?

10000 or more is a felony

[rusty fender]

9. It looks like it was plea-bargained down to

one count. So if one SS check was less than the felony amount, which is $2500 and above, I think, then it’s a misdemeanor. I think that each check she stole would be one count

I’m not a lawyer

[MagickMuffin]

3. There you have it: republicons would sell out their relatives for $$$,$$$,$$$.

Oh yes they would in a heartbeat.

[ffr]

4. Should be breaking news if we had something equivalent to RW media

But we don't.

[dalton99a]

5. Because she needed food

In court papers, guardian Amy Nicol accused Turk of using her mother’s Social Security checks to promote her dream of appearing on “The Real Housewives of Palm Beach” and to garner publicity.

As evidence, Nicol’s attorney Brian O’Connell accused Turk and her husband of renting large homes in Wellington, where they then lived, and buying tables at equestrian events that they could ill-afford.

[obamanut2012]

6. How is this not a Federal felony?!

It should be, no matter who does this.

It is also elder abuse, which is a felony here in FL. Why was she not charged with that on a state level???

[chowder66]

7. What a scumbag. nt

[malaise]

8. There's nothing like ReTHUG family values

Good 'effin grief!