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Omaha Steve

(107,867 posts) Wed Nov 19, 2025, 10:31 PM 13 hrs ago

US Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida indicted on charges of stealing $5M in disaster funds

Source: AP

Updated 7:07 PM CST, November 19, 2025

MIAMI (AP) — 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, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

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.”

A phone message left at Cherfilus-McCormick’s Washington office was not immediately returned.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/cherfilus-mccormick-fema-theft-campaign-funds-35b99f987380c9509735c45dd36db1c8

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US Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida indicted on charges of stealing $5M in disaster funds (Original Post) Omaha Steve 13 hrs ago OP

Republicans pioneered using covid funds to pay campaign expenses. SunSeeker 13 hrs ago #1

They're too busy with pardons BaronChocula 9 hrs ago #7

Has this been known publicly before now? Silent Type 12 hrs ago #2

-If- she is Found Guilty by a Court of Law, - then - she Must Pay the Consequences. Nictuku 12 hrs ago #3

If true, a bad thing angrychair 11 hrs ago #4

If guilty, she needs to pay full restitution MichMan 10 hrs ago #5

I will wait for the actual evidence. I don't believe anything the Pam Bondi DOJ says. mackdaddy 10 hrs ago #6

Some of the evidence so far ........ riversedge 4 hrs ago #8

Nothing coming from Bondi is valid orangecrush 3 hrs ago #9

She's my Congresswoman! Jose Garcia 2 hrs ago #10

Didn't every single Republican in the country do this? travelingthrulife 2 hrs ago #11

SunSeeker

(57,306 posts)

1. Republicans pioneered using covid funds to pay campaign expenses.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Nov 19, 2025, 10:50 PM

13 hrs ago

https://www.businessinsider.com/idaho-gop-candidate-used-employees-covid-funds-car-campaign-2022-6

Weird how Bondi has yet to indict a Trump-friendly Republican for anything.

BaronChocula

(3,798 posts)

7. They're too busy with pardons

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 02:32 AM

9 hrs ago

and dropping charges (ahem, Tom Homan)

Silent Type

(12,032 posts)

2. Has this been known publicly before now?

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Nov 19, 2025, 11:13 PM

12 hrs ago

Nictuku

(4,467 posts)

3. -If- she is Found Guilty by a Court of Law, - then - she Must Pay the Consequences.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Nov 19, 2025, 11:22 PM

12 hrs ago

Rule of Law.
Always

angrychair

(11,517 posts)

4. If true, a bad thing

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 12:27 AM

11 hrs ago

But the hypocrisy from this administration is impossible to ignore. That orange asshole has committed more crimes in these first ten months then he did in four years of his first term.

MichMan

(16,327 posts)

5. If guilty, she needs to pay full restitution

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 01:06 AM

10 hrs ago

mackdaddy

(1,913 posts)

6. I will wait for the actual evidence. I don't believe anything the Pam Bondi DOJ says.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 01:36 AM

10 hrs ago

If they are really dirty, then they deserve the consequences.

But, Bondi mostly does Trump's retribution.

riversedge

(78,903 posts)

8. Some of the evidence so far ........

Reply to mackdaddy (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 07:59 AM

4 hrs ago

She will have her chance to defend herself.
If true, so sad to see this from a Democrat.

..............The Florida Division of Emergency Management said it made a series of overpayments to Trinity Healthcare Services after hiring it in 2021 to register people for COVID-19 vaccinations. The agency says it discovered the problem after a single $5 million overpayment drew attention.

Cherfilus-McCormick was the CEO of Trinity at the time.

The Office of Congressional Ethics said in a January report that Cherfilus-McCormick's income in 2021 was more than $6 million higher than in 2020, driven by nearly $5.75 million in consulting and profit-sharing fees received from Trinity Healthcare Services.

In July, the House Ethics Committee unanimously voted to reauthorize an investigative subcommittee to examine allegations involving Cherfilus-McCormick.