{"id":246175,"date":"2026-04-25T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:20:21","slug":"rep-cherfilus-mccormick-resigns-but-appears-to-still-be-running-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246175\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Cherfilus-McCormick resigns but appears to still be running for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is still registered to run for re-election despite having resigned from office amid congressional and federal probes for allegedly mishandling disaster relief<\/a> funding for personal gain.<\/p>\n

On April 17, Cherfilus-McCormick submitted a notice<\/a> of her candidacy to the Florida Department of State as a Democrat just a week before officially stepping down from office.<\/p>\n

She resigned on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The filing raises questions about whether Cherfilus-McCormick believes she can still pursue political office despite facing intense scrutiny at the moment.<\/p>\n

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Former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., speaks after being sworn in during a ceremony in the Broward County Commission chambers in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 27, 2025. (Joe Cavaretta\/South Florida Sun Sentinel\/Tribune News Service)<\/p>\n

Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Cherfilus-McCormick\u2019s decision to resign from office came right before the House Ethics Committee was scheduled<\/a> to recommend she be punished for misusing disaster relief funding that she allegedly funneled through several companies into her campaign coffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The committee found that she had committed 18 campaign finance violations, five counts of false financial disclosures, three counts of misusing official funds and one count of lack of candor.<\/p>\n

Cherfilus-McCormick maintained her innocence but announced that she would defend<\/a> herself outside of her time in office.<\/p>\n

\"Congresswoman <\/p>\n

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla. (Carline Jean\/South Florida Sun Sentinel\/Tribune News Service)<\/p>\n

“This was not a fair process. The Ethics Committee refused my new attorney\u2019s reasonable request for time to prepare my defense. I simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on, and my good name to be tarnished,” Cherfilus-McCormick said in a press release.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Rather than play these political games, I choose to step away so that I can devote my time to fighting for my neighbors in Florida\u2019s 20th district. I hereby resign from the 119th Congress, effective immediately.”<\/p>\n

While Cherfilus-McCormick’s departure from Congress halted the<\/a> Ethics Committee\u2019s authority over her, she also faces federal charges.<\/p>\n

FEDERAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST DEM CONGRESSWOMAN FOLLOWING CONFRONTATION AT ICE FACILITY<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rep. <\/p>\n

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., leaves the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on March 27, 2025. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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She was indicted by a Miami grand<\/a> jury<\/a> in November for allegedly stealing $5 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).<\/p>\n

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> has not yet announced a date for a special election to fill her vacant seat.<\/p>\n

Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is still registered to run for re-election despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15331,13888,28,30,29,108281,108280,412],"class_list":{"0":"post-246175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-corruption","9":"tag-fema","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-fund-raising","14":"tag-phil-murphy","15":"tag-ron-desantis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}