Did you read the Sentinel’s exposé on freshman State Rep. Carolina Amesty?
I haven’t cringed that much since I watched a compilation video of skateboarding wipeouts. Every new paragraph induced another wince.
Reporters Annie Martin and Leslie Postal provided detailed reports about tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes on a home and business, bogus claims about the nonprofit university Amesty’s family runs and records that raised all kinds of questions.
One unpaid tax bill totaled $19,000 on a shuttered restaurant she owned. (Amesty paid those taxes after the reporters inquired about them.) Another is for $18,000 in taxes on a house Amesty lived in.
The unaccredited Central Christian University that pays her $107,000 salary also houses a private, K-12 voucher school that got $100,000 in state money one year when the school’s tax records said it had no employees.
The university gave state officials the names of professors who told the Sentinel they’d never worked there. And the school’s website featured an instructor who supposedly had degrees from Stanford, Cornell and Purdue — three schools that all told the Sentinel that wasn’t true.
All this at a supposedly global university that operates out of a building in Pine Hills that reporters described as “nearly deserted during four visits by Sentinel reporters and had a broken window on their last visit in mid-July.”
Move over, Harvard.
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