Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida Indicted

Friday, November 21, 2025

"Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. We will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice."

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U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign. n.pr/4o1S27t

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... The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract, federal prosecutors said. A portion of the money was then funneled to support her campaign through candidate contributions, prosecutors allege.

"Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. We will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:33 AM | Reply

@#1 ... Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. ...

OK, in this instance I agree with AG Bondi 100%.

Now, , current instance aside, if she would only focus upon Pres Trump, and fulfill her oath to the Constitution, instead of apparently being a toadie of Pres Trump ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:36 AM | Reply

Original Sources:

USDOJ Press Release

Congressional Report

If convicted, US Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison.

Are you kidding me?

How many years did Dummkopf Trumpf get for 34 counts of business fraud committed over a lifetime?

And Congress wants to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI).

No surprise that Women of Color are under attack under the malevolent Trumpf junta.

On a different thread a drudge.com contributor used the term "white toxicity."

And how.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 04:34 AM | Reply

"No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. ..."
Well, Ms. Bondi, take a look at your fellow Cabinet members: you have your work cut out for you.
No, wait, you got bought by Donnie the Perv for a measly $25K (that we know about).
Fuhgedaboudit.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-20 05:49 AM | Reply

Trump should step in and pardon since he established there's nothing wrong with public corruption with his commutations/pardons for George Santos, Duncan Hunter, Steve Stockman, Rick Renzi, Rod Blagojevich, Duke Cunningham to name a few.

#5 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-11-20 09:26 AM | Reply

Yeah, but its the Trump DOJ.

Damns the whole thing from the start.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-20 09:36 AM | Reply

Good.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-20 10:53 AM | Reply

That is, good that she was indicted. Regardless of party, all elected officials should be subject to the law.

#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-20 10:54 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yep, agreed.

#9 | Posted by boaz at 2025-11-20 11:29 AM | Reply

- all elected officials should be subject to the law.

Except for Trump.... let's not get carried away now.

A week ago when he knew he was going to have to capitulate and Taco Again on releasing the Epstein Files, he started a 'New DOJ Investigation' of some people in the Files so that he could Not Release parts he doesn't want out there.

Unfortunately for him, that Prohibition in the Bill is Temporary, and the Bill makes it Illegal NOT to release the files.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-20 11:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

She's not without blemish

"The Florida Democrat has also been the subject of an ethics investigation into campaign finance issues and requesting community project funding, known as earmarks, to a for-profit entity, potentially in violation of House rules"

www.politico.com

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-20 11:43 AM | Reply

This is almost as bad as stealing from cancer charities.

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-20 12:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2. Very good clarification. I took #1 the wrong way

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-20 12:54 PM | Reply

---- off country boy.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-20 01:01 PM | Reply

Good.
#1 | POSTED BY DBT2

What would be good is this to be on the front page, similar to all the other congressmen that took money that wasn't theirs.

Otherwise your good just looks like pandering.

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-20 01:24 PM | Reply

POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

It's the Trump DOJ.

Damns the whole thing from the start.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-20 02:57 PM | Reply

If convicted, US Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison.

Really?

Lower level Nazi war criminals were finally released from Soviet custody in 1955 and 1956 after serving ten year sentences. Some went on to write memoirs of the Third Reich or their time in the gulags. The books which became movies about Der Fuhrer's last days in the bunker came from their testimony.

Moreover, the Immortal Bard didn't live as long as this potential sentence of 53 years for Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.

William Shakespeare passed on 23 April 1616, at the tender age of 52.

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-21 03:52 AM | Reply

"Another democrat"

Meanwhile, OG poster supports an administration whose entire purpose is theft and dismantling any constraints on their actions.

Is he really this lacking in awareness?

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-21 10:39 AM | Reply

STFU onelumpofs^*%.

Trumpers aren't allowed to comment on corruption.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-21 10:39 AM | Reply

By name I didn't recognize if this was a Dem or a Rep... but since it wasn't in the headline, I had a good feeling it was a D. Not surprised to find out I was right. Definitely no media bias in news coverage though.

#20 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-11-21 12:21 PM | Reply

@#10 ... By name I didn't recognize if this was a Dem or a Rep... ...

The second paragraph of the article starts with, as noted in the sub-summary ...

... The Democrat is accused of ...

#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-21 12:41 PM | Reply

The second paragraph of the article starts with, as noted in the sub-summary ...
... The Democrat is accused of ...
#11 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Here's Gaslighter, mansplaining to KW, a fact he already ascertained from the article.

If convicted, US Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison.

Even if convicted she won't get 53 years, she won't even go to jail. Who do you think she is? Trump?

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-21 12:56 PM | Reply

ven if convicted she won't get 53 years, she won't even go to jail. Who do you think she is? Trump?
#12 | Posted by oneironaut

How many years did 34 felony Trump go to jail for again? I forget.

#23 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-11-21 01:02 PM | Reply

It was definitely buried in the article, my contention though is that the AP would have it in the headline if it were an R. maybe not.

#24 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-11-21 01:36 PM | Reply

How many years did 34 felony Trump go to jail for again?

Well, since every one of those 34 "felonies" was a misdemeanor and had never been used against anyone in the nation, I doubted he would go to prison.

They only did that so people like Snoofy and JPW could call Trump a felon.

#25 | Posted by boaz at 2025-11-21 03:27 PM | Reply

"every one of those 34 "felonies" was a misdemeanor"

That's not what the court said.

That's not what the jury said.

"...had never been used against anyone in the nation,"

In the nine years before Trump was indicted, the SDNY averaged filing a "falsifying business records" case once every TWO WORKING HOURS.

#26 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-11-21 03:31 PM | Reply