Rep. Amesty leaves trail of falsehoods, unpaid taxes and bills, records show

The first-term Republican touted her success as a business owner and educator in her campaign for the Florida House last year.

Rep. Carolina Amesty, who touted her success as a business owner and educator in her campaign for the Florida House last year, filed false information with the state about her family’s small Christian university, claimed to run a thriving restaurant that actually was closed and failed to ensure taxes were paid on the $1.3 million home she lived in, an Orlando Sentinel investigation found.

The first-term Republican lived for nearly three years with her parents in a five-bedroom pool home near Windermere purchased last year by Central Christian University, an arrangement that prompted controversy during her campaign.

Central Christian, an unaccredited school in Pine Hills, is run by Amesty, 28, and her father. It operates out of a former church building that seemed nearly deserted during four visits by Sentinel reporters and had a broken window on their last visit in mid-July.

The university has not paid the 2022 property tax bill on its upscale Mediterranean-style house where Amesty lived and now owes Orange County more than $18,000 in taxes and late fees.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/08/08/republican-rep-carolina-amesty-false-information-unpaid-taxes-bills/

Her Christian University must have quite a curriculum.

BTW, sorry this long and detailed article is behind a paywall, but IMO it is Pulitzer-level investigative reporting.