She seems like a nice sociopath:
Karyn Turk, a former Mrs. Florida beauty pageant winner turned conservative commentator, was sentenced to a month in federal prison plus five months of house arrest Thursday after pleading guilty to social security fraud in September.
The charge stemmed from Turk pocketing her mother’s social security checks rather than sending the money to the nursing home in which her mother was receiving care for dementia. Turk’s mother died June 10.
In separate cases in civil court, the nursing home, the mother’s court-appointed guardian and the guardian’s lawyers are all suing Turk to collect money they say she owes them as the representative of her mother’s estate. The total amount owed according to the three lawsuits is more than $320,000. [snip]
On Thursday, the day she was sentenced, Turk uploaded a picture to Instagram, where she has 70,000 followers. In it, she stands in a red dress in front of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate.
According to prosecutors, Turk began stealing from her dementia-ridden mother’s social security account soon after being appointed as her representative payee in January 2015. The nursing home bill ballooned to almost a quarter-million dollars, and as demands for payment became more insistent, Turk stopped visiting her mother.
Finally, in July 2018, the nursing home requested a court-appointed guardian. This request was granted, and a month later, the court ordered Turk to buy clothes for her mother. (our emphasis)Cruelty and hypocrisy abounds on all levels, of course. "Family values conservative" -- check. Defrauding Social Security, a program historically opposed by conservatives, to line your own pocket at your ailing mother's expense-- check. Being a loyal follower of the Crook- in- Chief -- wait, that one fits perfectly.
(Image: screenshot from a Sun Sentinel photo by Amy Beth Bennett of Turk with fellow future inmate Roger Stone.)
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