Three years ago, state Rep. Carolina Amesty’s family wanted a Florida license for the small, unaccredited university they run from a busy commercial street west of Orlando.
Central Christian University applied for that license by submitting documents showing it had professors with graduate degrees, including some from elite schools such as Georgetown and Harvard.
But five people listed as faculty in the Central Christian’s application, including those with degrees from highly selective colleges, never worked for the university.
Amesty, 29, an Orlando-area Republican elected to the Florida House in 2022, notarized one of those documents, claiming
