Maxwell: Carolina Amesty is the second Florida lawmaker accused of COVID fraud. The feds pounce after state officials largely ...

Facing federal criminal charges, former state Rep. Carolina Amesty has retained a well-connected lawyer to plead her case: ...

U.S. prosecutors are charging former state Rep. Carolina Amesty with stealing from the federal government’s COVID-19 relief ...

Months after being voted out of office, former State Representative Carolina Amesty (R-Windermere) has been charged with ...

Former state Rep. Carolina Amesty is accused of fraudulent activity involving COVID-19 relief funds, according to federal ...

Former state Rep. Carolina Amesty is accused of fraudulent activity involving COVID-19 relief funds, according to federal ...

Former state Rep. Carolina Amesty is accused of defrauding the federal government’s COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts, U.S. Department of Justice officials said Friday. The 30-year-old Windermere ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Months after being voted out of office, former State Representative Carolina Amesty (R-Windermere) has been charged with federal crimes related to a pandemic-era relief program.

Carolina Amesty, 30, Republican obtained $122,000 by fraudulently applying for pandemic relief funds in the name of two businesses.

In all, the complaint accuses Amesty of stealing or embezzling $122,000 in federal loan dollars — $84,500 through Carolina Amesty Foundation and $37,500 through Dinocar Auto Sales LLC.

Former Florida state representative Carolina Amesty has been wrapped up in accusations of misappropriating COVID-19 relief funds intended to support struggling businesses during the pandemic.

Florida State Rep. Carolina Amesty has completed a diversion program in order to get forgery charges against her dropped by prosecutors. Rep. Amesty was indicted in August on four charges ...