Posted on 08/15/2026 9:05:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is asking voters to return her to Congress — less than four months after she resigned from the House of Representatives.
Cherfilus-McCormick is one of five Democrats seeking her party’s nomination in the reconfigured Broward County 20th Congressional District in the Aug. 18 primary. The district is so overwhelmingly Democratic — President Donald Trump finished 39 points behind Kamala Harris in the 2024 election — that the winner of the congressional primary is all-but-guaranteed to win the November election.
In April, Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from the House. A bipartisan adjudicatory subcommittee found she committed 25 ethics violations. And she faces federal criminal charges.
On the campaign trail, Cherfilus-McCormick has asserted from the debate stage, in media interviews and in conversations with voters that she’s done nothing wrong. Instead, Cherfilus-McCormick is telling voters she is the victim of politically motivated investigations, a description that echoes the claims Trump made about the investigations into his conduct before he was elected to a second term in 2024.
She has suggested political motives involving both the yearslong congressional investigation, which culminated in her resignation, and the investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, which secured an indictment against her. The government said she stole federal disaster funds, laundered the proceeds and used the money to support her first successful election campaign.
“In the United States there is a presumption of innocence, especially when we see weaponization of the DOJ, not just from one party, from both sides in a political climate,” Cherfilus-McCormick said in a July interview with South Florida Sun Sentinel opinion writers and a news reporter.
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“”””Cherfilus-McCormick has asserted from the debate stage, in media interviews and in conversations with voters that she’s done nothing wrong.”””””
The “ I Dindu Nuffin” defense.
A graduate of the Marion Barry school of politics. The school’s motto is “The b*tch set me up!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Cherfilus-McCormick#Financial_fraud_charges
Financial fraud charges
On December 27, 2023, the House Ethics Committee announced that it was investigating Cherfilus-McCormick over allegations that she had violated campaign finance laws, failed to submit required disclosures, and carried out improper hiring practices.[43]
In January 2025, the state of Florida filed a $5 million lawsuit against Cherfilus-McCormick’s South Florida-based Trinity Health Care Services business for knowingly accepting overpayments of invoices for work that was not actually performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.[44]
In November 2025, Cherfilus-McCormick was indicted on charges that she “stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds and used the money for her congressional campaign”. The specific charges included theft, money laundering, making illegal campaign contributions, and conspiring to file a false federal tax return.[45][46][47] Claiming innocence,[48] she pleaded not guilty.[49] She faces up to 53 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines.[46][49]
In January 2026, the investigative subcommittee of the House Committee on Ethics found that Cherfilus-McCormick’s actions were consistent with the allegations in the criminal indictment against her, as well as more extensive misconduct, and included violations of campaign finance laws and regulations, criminal laws, the Ethics in Government Act, the Code of Ethics for Government Service, and House rules.[50] Cherfilus-McCormick denied the allegations.[51] The House Ethics Committee held a hearing on Cherfilus-McCormick’s conduct on March 26, 2026.[52][53] The following day, the bipartisan committee found her guilty on 25 of 27 charges.[54][55][56] The finding paved the way for an expulsion vote by the full House of Representatives.[54] Representative Greg Steube stated he intended to force a vote to expel Cherfilus-McCormick.[57] Democratic representatives Vicente Gonzalez, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Jim Himes suggested Cherfilus-McCormick should resign or be removed.[58][56][59]
On April 21, 2026, Cherfilus-McCormick resigned her congressional post. She submitted her resignation minutes before a House Ethics Committee hearing; at that hearing, the Committee was scheduled to consider recommending that she be removed from Congress.[31][32]
She may have to switch to the RACISM and WHITE SUPREMACY defense.
“All money is my money”
Doesn’t work in Florida.................
Her Word Salad is as good a Kamalala’s:
“And I say this over and over again, we have to go back to actually what our Constitution says and we have to go back to the reality of it because these political politics always try to tear people down during these moments, during these moments when our district is under attack, during these moments when we actually have elections.”
She is probably only campaigning in order to raise some money for lawyers.. Grifters gotta grift.
This case reminds me of Adam Clayton Powell. As I remember, voters eventually broke with him because of the corruption.
But he was able to play the race card a long time.
Her word salad makes my head hurt.
Well why not?
With how AZ counts votes, you can’t rule her out...
Does she the same chance in Florida?
She’s in Florida............
Zactly. And after she's collected all she can, she'll bow out and go get elected mayor in Jackson, MS or some such.
“She’s in Florida............”
Yes, but . . . In that particular district anything is possible.
Florida has been trending in the right direction for nearly two decades. Still, there are pockets of dangerously blue voters.
I maybe showing my age, but wasn’t Cherfiluphagus a Sesame Street character?
They always go from “These are lies” to “When the evidence comes out, I will be ‘exaggerated’” to “I made a mistake”. I wish we could go straight to the “It was a mistake”.
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