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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.

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.

This spring, Amesty also failed to pay the property taxes on the shuttered fast-food chicken restaurant she owns, so for three months the Orlando restaurant called Pollo Juan and the university owed the county more than $37,000.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023...-records-show/

Do Republicans stand for anything other than dishonesty and grift?