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BREAKING: House Democrat CHARGED With Stealing $5 Million In FEMA Funds
Lawmakers are supposed to make laws but this Democrat congresswoman from Florida allegedly broke the law big time.
The Department of Justice announced Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla) has been indicted on charges she stole $5 million in FEMA funds.
According to the indictment Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother laundered and stole FEMA funds and in return used the money for her congressional campaign.
NBC News provided more details on the indictment:
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., was indicted Wednesday on charges she stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds and used the money for her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said.
In a news release citing the indictment, the Justice Department said that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and Edwin Cherfilus, 51, her brother, worked on a staffing contract funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Covid vaccinations tied to their family health care company in 2021 and that the company was overpaid by $5 million in relief funds.
She and her brother are accused of conspiring to steal the overpayment and route it through various accounts to conceal its origins. Cherfilus-McCormick is alleged to have used the money for her own enrichment and to fund a significant part of her congressional campaign.
Cherfilus-McCormick won a special election in January 2022 to fill the seat of the late Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings. She won 72.3% of the vote in that year’s general election and was re-elected again last year, when she ran uncontested.
The Justice Department said Cherfilus-McCormick and another defendant, Nadege Leblanc, 46, also used straw donors to secure additional campaign contributions, funneling other disaster relief money from the FEMA-funded contract to friends and relatives who then made donations to the campaign as if they were contributing their own money.
JUST IN: Dem U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick charged with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds.
Federal prosecutors say Cherfilus-McCormick & her brother received a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract through their family healthcare company.
They allegedly got… pic.twitter.com/efACBaM1xx
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 20, 2025
Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick won her 2022 special election by only 5 votes:
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick won her 2022 special election primary by 5 votes. Today, she was charged with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds for that election campaign. As her intern in 2023, I want to go on the record with my complete innocence and say omgggg that’s crazyyyy pic.twitter.com/9RoA9VBV96
— GFB (@maybegabrielle) November 20, 2025
Read the DOJ’s full press release below:
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.
“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.”
U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida stated, “Today’s indictment shows no one is above the law. This indictment reflects our Office’s commitment to follow the facts, apply the law, and protect the American taxpayer. Public money belongs to the American people. When FEMA funds are diverted for personal or political gain, it erodes trust and harms us all. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to ensure that American taxpayer dollars are used as intended and that the public’s trust is safeguarded.”