Former GOP executive committee member indicted

Kelsey Ketron, a former member of the executive committee of the Tennessee Republican Party and daughter of Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron, has been indicted.

The Daily News Journal of Murfreesboro reports Kelsey Ketron was arrested on three sealed indictments (UPDATE: the indictments were later unsealed. See below). She was being held a $100,000 bond at the Rutherford County jail on Tuesday.

Ketron has been the subject of an investigation into allegations of insurance fraud. State and federal agents raided her home and her father’s insurance company in July. The mayor told the newspaper at the time he was shocked by the warrants. Bill Ketron is facing an audit into his campaign finance filings. His daughter was his PACs’ treasurer.

Ketron was the state Senate Republican Caucus chairman before he was elected mayor. Kelsey Ketron resigned from the GOP’s executive committee in late July.

UPDATE: 

Kelsey Ketron faces dozens of charges, according to the Daily News Journal. They are:

• 30 counts of impersonating a licensed professional.
• 14 counts of money laundering.
• 12 counts of aggravated perjury.
• 5 counts of fraudulent insurance acts of $250,000 or more.
• 5 counts of forgery of $250,000 or more.
• two counts of fraudulent insurance acts between $60,000-$250,000.
• one count of a fraudulent insurance act between $10,000-$59,999.
• one count of theft of property between $10,000-$60,000.
• one count of theft of property $60,000-$250,000.