WINDERMERE, Fla. — Charges against former State Rep. Carolina Amesty have been dropped, according to court documents.
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Amesty, a Republican who represented District 45, was indicted on the following charges: forgery, uttering a forgery, false acknowledgement or certification by a notary public and notarizing your own signature.
The charges were connected to evidence “showing she knowingly notarized a document with a forged signature in 2021 while serving as an administrator at Central Christian Academy, a nonprofit school run by her family,” the State Attorney’s Office said.
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The charges were filed in August.
Amesty lost her reelection bid in November against Democrat Leonard Spencer, a former Disney executive.
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The decision to drop the charges came less than two months before the case could have gone to trial.
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