                                        {"id":4690,"date":"2026-07-17T09:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:36:25","slug":"exclusive-secrets-behind-tyler-robinsons-lucrative-family-business-revealed-as-utah-taxpayers-foot-10m-legal-bills-for-charlie-kirks-alleged-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4690","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Secrets behind Tyler Robinson&#8217;s lucrative family business revealed \u2014 as Utah taxpayers foot $10M legal bills for Charlie Kirk&#8217;s alleged killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ST. GEORGE, Utah \u2014 Tyler Robinson\u2019s dad was back running his thriving local business this week \u2014 days after he showed up in court to support his son as troves of damning evidence about Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder were publicly revealed for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4688\">CBS cuts away from Trump\u2019s election fraud speech \u2014 as ABC and NBC refused to air it on TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Robinson has been at his son\u2019s side since the beginning \u2014 even turning him over to cops after he allegedly confessed to killing the Turning Point USA founder last September.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to his legal defense, Tyler Robinson, 23, is on his own \u2014 and Utah taxpayers are footing the bill, which could exceed $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Robinson was spotted commuting from his $600,000 southern Utah home to his masonry business.<\/p>\n<p>As his son awaits his fate, Matthew Robinson is apparently back to his normal routine \u2014 driving his GMC pickup truck to the unmarked warehouse on the outskirts of St. George.<\/p>\n<p>The stone and marble supplier runs on word-of-mouth marketing and tight relationships with loyal clients, according to multiple sources who have done business with him.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Matthew Robinson\u2019s customers have stuck with the family despite the charges against his son. The elder Robinson rarely mentions his son, according to a colleague who asked to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been in the family for more than a decade, but Matthew\u2019s brother and co-founder previously sued him, claiming he embezzled $100,000 over the course of nearly two years, according to a lawsuit filed in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The brother, Clint Robinson, accused Matthew of trading work for personal favors, hiding financial records, and once said they would go to jail if authorities were to see their books, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Clint requested multiple restraining orders, but the brothers later reached a confidential settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer for Clint Robinson declined to comment, and Matthew\u2019s lawyers did not respond to The Post\u2019s inquiry on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s parents, Matthew and Amber, have kept quiet after he allegedly shot the conservative leading light at Utah Valley University, about a three-hour drive from their hometown.<\/p>\n<h2>Here\u2019s the latest on the murder trial of Charlie Kirk\u2019s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Redacted letter from Tyler Robinson to trans lover accidentally shown in court<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tyler Robinson spent weeks plotting Charlie Kirk assassination, asked trans lover about engraver tool for bullets: bombshell recording<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Prosecutors reveal trans sex joke engraved in ammo that allegedly killed Charlie Kirk<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chilling text from Tyler Robinson to trans lover boasts about gun doing \u2018just fine\u2019 after he allegedly killed Charlie Kirk<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alleged Charlie Kirk killer\u2019s trans lover reveals moment he tearfully confessed to the shooting<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friends, teachers, and neighbors remembered Tyler Robinson as a hardworking, church-going kid who seemed close with his parents \u2014 at least from the outside.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson briefly attended Utah State University with a prestigious scholarship, but later dropped out. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4686\">Midtown eyesore turns into homeless magnet \u2014 thanks to Mamdani\u2019s apathy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He then moved in with trans lover Lance Twiggs, and grew increasingly politically radical, according to evidence prosecutors laid out in a bombshell pre-trial hearing this month.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson spent his time gaming chatting online in a rented room across town from his parents, Twiggs said in video testimony played at the hearing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors presented evidence that Robinson confessed to killing Kirk at least three times to Twiggs \u2014 including in a love letter in which he called Twiggs by his trans furry name, Luna.<\/p>\n<p>Twiggs recalled Robinson breaking down in tears before declaring that he was ready to come clean to his parents; he later showed up to the sheriff\u2019s office with his dad and a former cop family friend, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson worked for an electrical contractor before his arrest, but a judge declared him \u201cindigent\u201d and hired high-powered defense attorneys from California and Utah to defend him.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers have asked the state for $2 million in additional funding for the trial, which could cost more than $10 million after potentially years of appeals upon conviction, according to experts.<\/p>\n<p>The whopping cost is the result of the time and expert witnesses needed to defend such a sensational capital-murder case with stakes as high as they get, Neama Rahmani, a prominent former prosecutor with no ties to the case, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s hometown \u2014 a tight-knit, predominantly Mormon enclave nestled in the cliffs and buttes of the southern Utah desert \u2014 is still reeling from their alleged local-boy-made-bad.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure how I felt,\u201d Robinson\u2019s former high school teacher Rich Hentosh told The Post after watching prosecutors lay out evidence against him this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was quite dramatic. All the news media, you try to take it all in. It tough to see one of your students in this kind of a situation, whether they\u2019re guilty or innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He and his neighbors never asked to be at the center of one of the nation\u2019s biggest scandals. And nearly a year later, they\u2019re ready for it all to end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community is just done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4684\">\u2018The Big Bang Theory\u2019 star Jim Parsons says he paid a steep price for fame<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Robinson&#8217;s parents seem to have resumed their picture-perfect suburban life as their son awaits trial after allegedly killing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Exclusive | Secrets behind Tyler Robinson&#039;s lucrative family business revealed \u2014 as Utah taxpayers foot $10M legal bills for Charlie Kirk&#039;s alleged killer - 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