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Posted on 11/19/2025 6:37:44 PM PST by bitt
Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL) was indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing $5 million in FEMA funds.
According to the Justice Department, Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother Edwin Cherfilus allegedly stole $5 million in FEMA funds and funneled it through different accounts to pay for the defendant’s 2021 congressional campaign.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is facing up to 53 years in prison if convicted.
“Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
“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.”
Per the DOJ:
A federal grand jury in Miami has returned an indictment charging Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and several co-defendants with stealing federal disaster funds, laundering the proceeds, and using the money to support her 2021 congressional campaign.
According to the indictment, Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.
The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source. Prosecutors allege that a substantial portion of the misappropriated funds was used as candidate contributions to Cherfilus-McCormick’s 2021 congressional campaign and for the personal benefit of the defendants.
The indictment further alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick and Nadege Leblanc, 46, of Miramar, arranged additional contributions using straw donors, funneling other monies from the FEMA-funded Covid-19 contract to friends and relatives who then donated to the campaign as if using their own money.
The indictment also charges Cherfilus-McCormick and her 2021 tax preparer David K. Spencer, 41, of Davie, with conspiring to file a false federal tax return. According to the indictment, they falsely claimed political spending and other personal expenses as business deductions and inflated charitable contributions in order to reduce her tax obligations.
Edwin Cherfilus faces up to 35 years, Leblanc up to 10 years, and Spencer up to 33 years, the DOJ said.
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Another proud Howard alum. JD from a private Catholic school. Musta slept through the “Thou shalt not steal.” lecture.
Must not have made the correct “payments”.
Will she be forced to step down from congress? She should be
“Hell, if they’re not giving us reparations...we’ll just fn take it !”
She will present the typical defense, “Dindu Nuffin.”
Reparations !
Nothing to see here, move along now.
( Lock her up and throw away the key.)
Isn’t this SOP for democrats and rinos ?
A black Congresswoman would never do that...
Oh sorry, she graduated from the Nancy Pelosi Academy of Financial Fraud...
These people are rarely smart enough to hide their crimes.
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