Last month, after the Orlando Sentinel published an eye-popping investigative piece on freshman legislator Carolina Amesty — featuring unpaid taxes, false claims and questions about the private university she works for — Amesty took to Twitter to tell residents she was bringing home the bacon.
In one post, Amesty shared a photo of herself delivering an oversized check to Orange County. “I’m proud to have delivered a check for $7.9 million today to the Orange County commission,” she wrote. “I’m working hard, and delivering, for families in Central Florida!”
Amesty definitely championed a number of successful funding requests for local projects — though Nicole Wilson, the commissioner for the district supposedly receiving the check, said no check presentation ever actually took place, that Amesty had just gotten a photo of herself outside Wilson’s office, something Amesty later acknowledged.
