Richard A. Turner (born 1935) was an American politician in the state of

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...

. He served in the

Kentucky House of Representatives The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form ...

as a Republican from 1980 to 1996 and in 1976. Turner was caught in the FBI investigation of Kentucky horse racing industry called

Operation Boptrot Operation Boptrot, also referred to as Boptrot, was an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into corruption among the Kentucky General Assembly, the Commonwealth's legislature. The operation was highly successful ...

. He was convicted of filing a fake campaign finance report.(1983)

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Living people Republican Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives 1935 births People from Monroe County, Kentucky People from Pikeville, Kentucky Kentucky politicians convicted of crimes {{Kentucky-politician-stub