Florida state GOP Rep. Carolina Amesty was booked into the Orange County jail on August 29, 2024, on felony forgery charges.

Amesty has represented parts of Orange and Osceola counties in the Florida House of Representatives since November 2022. According to the Orange County government website, the 29-year-old Republican faces four charges: forgery, uttering forgery, notarizing her own signature, and false acknowledgement by notary public.

Evidence was presented to a grand jury, which found sufficient evidence to return an indictment.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Raymon Everett Holmberg, a/k/a Sean Evans, for Child Sex Tourism and Receipt of Child Pornography. Holmberg, age 79, from Grand Forks, ND, a former North Dakota State Senator, was indicted on October 26, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota and appeared for an initial appearance and arraignment today.

Nicole Torres, who has represented the Republican party for the 81st Assembly district in the northwest section of the borough since 2019, is accused of using her job at the city Board of Elections to scam potential employees and cash fraudulent paychecks.

According to court documents, the alleged illegal conduct took place over a five-year period.

Peters, a Republican seeking the GOP nomination for secretary of state, is the first elections official to face criminal charges related to conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election, according to multiple experts. She is accused not of fixing the election but of breaking the law as she sought to investigate whether someone else did. The indictment below, returned March 8 by a Mesa County grand jury, lays out the allegations against her and her deputy, Belinda Knisley.