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Congresswoman Faces Expulsion After Indictment for Stealing FEMA Funds, Filing False Tax Return
The New American ^ | November 20, 2025 | R. Cort Kirkwood

Posted on 11/21/2025 8:10:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Far-left Democratic Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick might soon be expelled from Congress if House Republicans get their way.

The reason: A federal grand jury has indicted her and other defendants, including her brother, for purloining $5 million from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and using it for contributions to her 2021 congressional campaign.

The indictment isn’t Cherfilus-McCormick’s first brush with federal law. In April, she was the target of a complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for myriad shenanigans with campaign funds and contributions.

The indictment and the FEC complaint are cited in the expulsion resolution from GOP Representative Greg Steube, also of Florida.

The DOJ Indictment

The Justice Department’s (DOJ) summary of the indictment explains that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother, Edwin, 51, “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 defendants conspired to steal the money, then attempted to disguise the sources by routing the funds through “multiple accounts,” DOJ alleges:

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 also claims that Cherfilus-McCormick and another conspirator, Nadege Leblanc, 46, “arranged additional contributions using straw donors” from that contract. That went to “friends and relatives who then donated to the campaign as if using their own money.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democratcorruption; democratcrime; democratparty
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1 posted on 11/21/2025 8:10:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As a Democrat, I thought this would be a resume enhancement. Should probably be moved into a leadership position.


2 posted on 11/21/2025 8:12:29 AM PST by GMMC0987
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I guess they ran out of USAID money to supply her kickbacks.


3 posted on 11/21/2025 8:14:49 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tell me again why we need Congre$$.


4 posted on 11/21/2025 8:17:37 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nuffin will happen ,LOL


5 posted on 11/21/2025 8:19:11 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: antidemoncrat

Because we’re not an absolute monarchy ...

The problem isn’t that we have a Congress.

The problem is that We the People keep electing corrupt, lying, thieving, grifting, sex-abusing, self-centered, power-hungry, clever but unintelligent, ignorant, arrogant, bigoted, unaccomplished, career criminals to Congress.


6 posted on 11/21/2025 8:23:19 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: butlerweave

If she doesn’t have to repay the stolen funds prison is useless. Make the DNC pay the reparations for the crime if she can’t


7 posted on 11/21/2025 8:24:41 AM PST by Fai Mao (I used to care, but things have changed ~ Bob Dylan)
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To: butlerweave
Nuffin will happen ,LOL

My thoughts as well. They will protect their own. Isn’t this or a variation of it the primary reason why many enter politics?

How else do you amass a multi million dollar net worth in a few years on a salary that barely covers rent in DC as so many congressmen and senators have done?

8 posted on 11/21/2025 8:27:35 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course she has played the race card. https://x.com/cjpearson/status/1991659679202832456?s=61&t=JnND_kqv5gpuQl8CS9RWhA


9 posted on 11/21/2025 8:38:22 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Investigate every female politician with a double-barreled surname, and you are almost guaranteed to find some kind of corruption.


10 posted on 11/21/2025 8:38:54 AM PST by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AND “For getting caught at it”


11 posted on 11/21/2025 8:42:31 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Many here have way too much cynicism. She’s done now, or later. it’s egregious

2/3rds vote is needed, but Donks would be hung for a no vote.

DoJ may make it moot beforehand, anyway.


12 posted on 11/21/2025 8:43:09 AM PST by chiller ( Davy Crockett said:"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." I'll go ahead.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Expulsion is OK, but a prison term must accompany it.


13 posted on 11/21/2025 8:43:27 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Faces Expulsion”

They haven’t launcher her already?


14 posted on 11/21/2025 8:43:29 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: NorthMountain

The problem is that We the People keep electing corrupt, lying, thieving, grifting, sex-abusing, self-centered, power-hungry, clever but unintelligent, ignorant, arrogant, bigoted, unaccomplished, career criminals to Congress.
.....

Maybe the obliteration of the Deep State and draining of the Swamp will hit the Swamp Congress as hard as it’s supposed to hit the other two Swamp Branches of the Swamp Banana Republic.


15 posted on 11/21/2025 8:44:47 AM PST by delchiante
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ms Syphilis-McCormick just couldn’t resist the temptation.


16 posted on 11/21/2025 8:44:52 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: NorthMountain

“corrupt, lying, thieving, grifting, sex-abusing, self-centered, power-hungry, clever but unintelligent, ignorant, arrogant, bigoted, unaccomplished, career criminals to Congress.”

Isn’t it easier to type ‘Uniparty’?


17 posted on 11/21/2025 8:44:53 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: GMMC0987
Should probably be moved into a leadership position

Prolly will - as soon as she's kicked out of congress she'll go straight to the DNC.

18 posted on 11/21/2025 8:45:17 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: delchiante

The problem is that We the People keep electing corrupt, lying, thieving, grifting, sex-abusing, self-centered, power-hungry, clever but unintelligent, ignorant, arrogant, bigoted, unaccomplished, career criminals to Congress.


GIGO!


19 posted on 11/21/2025 8:45:19 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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I saw a clip of her on Live From Studio 6B last night mumbling some canned BS about black and brown people and it’s all Trump’s fault.


20 posted on 11/21/2025 8:47:05 AM PST by Allegra
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