Former NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his wife file for bankruptcy

Ronni Butts, The News & Observer on Nov 10, 2026

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Mark Robinson, the scandal-ravaged former North Carolina lieutenant governor and 2024 Republican gubernatorial candidate, and his wife declared bankruptcy last week, court documents show.

Robinson and Yolanda Hill filed for bankruptcy Nov. 3 under Chapter 13, which creates a payment plan to pay back debts rather than liquidating assets. This helps prevent creditors from foreclosing on debtors’ homes.

Documents show the two collectively owe nearly $800,000. Robinson and Hill have incurred more than $120,000 in debt from “credit card purchases” and owe $3,000 in taxes or debts to the IRS.

They have also faced several lawsuits from banks for failing to pay back debts.

Robinson and Hill’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.

In his 2022 memoir, “We are the Majority,” Robinson described a habit of “bad money management” in his past. From 1998 to 2002, Robinson and his wife failed to pay an estimated $15,800 in income taxes, ABC News reported; they paid those back in 2003.

The two also filed bankruptcy three times from 1998 to 2003. During that same period, they had two cars repossessed, according to court documents. The pair’s financial woes don’t stop there.

In 2024, the State Board of Elections found that Robinson’s campaign committed several campaign finance violations while he ran for lieutenant governor in 2020, The News & Observer previously reported. Robinson was ordered to pay the state board $35,000, which he did in December 2024. In October 2024, polling company Vox Insights sued Robinson, accusing him of failing to pay a $114,000 bill for services. Vox Insights dropped the lawsuit in September 2025, having agreed to an undisclosed mediated settlement, the Carolina Journal reported.

Also in 2024, Hill closed her nonprofit Balanced Nutrition after it drew scrutiny from the state and federal government for missed meetings and missing documents. The nonprofit, which connected childcare centers with government-funded nutrition programs, owed the state $132,000, The N&O reported.

This past March, Balanced Nutrition still hadn’t repaid $101,142 in misspent funds after missing the deadline to pay it back nearly one year before, a North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told WUNC News. The nonprofit improperly documented purchases and made improper claims for payment from the federally funded food program, WUNC reported.

The recent bankruptcy filing comes as Robinson faces a pending lawsuit. He was sued by Louis Money, a former Greensboro porn shop employee who told The Assembly that Robinson frequently patronized the shop in the 1990s and 2000s. Money filed the lawsuit after Robinson sued him and CNN, which published an investigative story reporting that Robinson made many racist and sexually explicit comments on an online porn website called “Nude Africa” years before he entered politics. Money made a music video in which he claimed Robinson had failed to pay him for a bootleg porn video purchase.

On the porn site, CNN reported, Robinson used slurs and called himself a “Black NAZI” and a “perv.” and recalled peeping into a women’s locker room as a teenager to watch women shower.

Robinson sued CNN for defamation, but he dropped the lawsuit three months later, citing “costly litigation and political gamesmanship by my detractors.” In response, Money sued Robinson. Money’s lawsuit accuses Robinson’s lawsuit of being illegitimate and said that he “used the process against Money to advance his ulterior purpose.”

Some of Robinson’s top campaign staff quit amid the scandal. Donald Trump, who at the time was campaigning for president and had endorsed Robinson, distanced himself. Robinson lost the governor’s race to Democrat Josh Stein even as Trump won.

The court documents list Robinson and Hill’s assets. Among Robinson’s personal property are eight guns — some of which are semiautomatic — collectively valued at $5,950. Robinson is known for his pro-gun stance and got his start in politics after a video of him giving a pro-gun rights speech at the Greensboro City Council went viral in 2018.

Since March, Robinson has hosted his podcast “Mark Robinson Unscripted” for Real Truth Media, a podcasting and conservative news company. Robinson has also maintained a sizable following on social media, where he frequently posts short-form conservative commentary. Bankruptcy court records show Hill is unemployed.

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