'In trouble with Girl Scouts?' Report reveals Mark Robinson's wife's many money scandals
Raw StoryThe North Carolina Republican candidate linked to pro-Nazi and slavery comments made on a porn site is married to a woman successfully sued by an organization that helps little girls sell cookies, a new report shows. Mark Robinson's wife Yolanda, 56, has faced court battles over questionable bookkeeping practices — one of which officials say cost the state of North Carolina more than $130,000 — and a bounced check sent to a local Girl Scouts group, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Cooper called Yolanda Robinson's reputation among North Carolina voters "unusual" and added, “It tells us that she has been ensnared in almost as much controversy as her husband.” One of those controversies includes the shuttering this year of Yolanda Robinson's nonprofit Balanced Nutrition, which helps child care centers obtain federal funding for low-cost meals, according to the report. The agency also reported “serious deficiencies” that included paying Yolanda Robinson's daughter without state approval or disclosure of the relationship, the Times reported. Yolanda Robinson earlier in her career sold a day care center, which she owned and her husband helped operate, when a state investigation found it had presented falsified documents to inspectors, the Times reported.