{"id":53440,"date":"2025-11-20T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53440\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:45:07","slug":"florida-rep-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-accused-of-stealing-5m-in-fema-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53440\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick accused of stealing $5M in FEMA funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) was hit with a federal indictment Wednesday, accusing her of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds to support her 2021 congressional campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Cherfilus-McCormick, who has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee since December 2023, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami and faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37714262\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/congresswoman-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-fla-115749954.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick speaks at a news conference, flanked by American and House of Representatives flags.\" class=\"wp-image-37714262\"  \/>Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds to support her 2021 congressional campaign. TNS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,\u201d Attorney General Pam Bondi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/south-florida-congresswoman-charged-stealing-5-million-fema-funds-and-making-illegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cNo one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) was hit with a federal indictment Wednesday, accusing her of stealing $5 million in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,13888,28,30,29,99,33580,4278],"class_list":["post-53440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-fema","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-politics","tag-us-house-of-representatives","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53440","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=53440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}