A candidate for the Florida Legislature is being accused of lying about graduating from college and then producing a fake diploma after a website questioned her about it.
Miami University in Ohio told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that House candidate Melissa Howard attended the school but never graduated. The school also says the diploma she produced doesn’t match those issued in 1994 or 1996, the years she has claimed she graduated, or any year.
The Republican businesswoman is running in the Aug. 28 primary. Her campaign consultant, naturally, told the Herald-Tribune that Miami’s own records are ‘fake news.’