{"id":1403,"date":"2025-11-20T04:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:30:31","slug":"dem-congresswoman-indicted-for-particularly-selfish-alleged-theft-of-fema-relief-funds-for-campaign-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/dem-congresswoman-indicted-for-particularly-selfish-alleged-theft-of-fema-relief-funds-for-campaign-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem congresswoman indicted for &#8216;particularly selfish&#8217; alleged theft of FEMA relief funds for campaign use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1405\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dem-congresswoman-indicted-particularly-selfish-alleged-theft-fema-relief-funds-campaign-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1405 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/news-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-fema-800-400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/news-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-fema-800-400-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/news-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-fema-800-400-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/news-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-fema-800-400-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick indicted for allegedly stealing $5 million in FEMA disaster relief funds for illegal campaign contributions in shocking federal case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,&#8221; Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Both Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother worked through their family healthcare company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021, according to the indictment. The company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds in July 2021, prosecutors alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Source: <em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dem-congresswoman-indicted-particularly-selfish-alleged-theft-fema-relief-funds-campaign-use\">Dem congresswoman indicted for &#8216;particularly selfish&#8217; alleged theft of FEMA relief funds for campaign use<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick indicted for allegedly stealing $5 million in FEMA disaster relief funds for illegal campaign contributions in shocking federal case. &#8220;Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,&#8221; Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. &#8220;No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-opinion","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}