{"id":161089,"date":"2026-04-02T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161089"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:25:07","slug":"florida-congresswoman-committed-25-ethics-violations-house-panel-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161089","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Florida Congresswoman Committed 25 Ethics Violations, House Panel Finds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-ethics-violations_n_69c6979de4b09f8e00511fbe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPost:<\/a> &#8220;Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards, the House Ethics Committee found Friday \u2014 a ruling that could add weight to Republicans&#8217; push to expel her from Congress. The panel found that Cherfilus-McCormick had committed 25 ethics violations, with a recommended punishment to follow in the coming weeks. The allegations center around her receipt of millions of dollars from her family&#8217;s health care business after Florida made an overpayment of roughly $5 million in disaster relief funds \u2014 money she is accused of using to fund her 2022 congressional campaign through a network of businesses and family members. Cherfilus-McCormick also faces federal charges for allegedly stealing the $5 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds and using it for purchases like a 3-carat yellow diamond ring. She has pleaded not guilty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPost: &#8220;Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards, the House Ethics Committee found Friday \u2014 a ruling that could add weight to Republicans&#8217; push to expel her from Congress. The panel found that Cherfilus-McCormick had committed 25 ethics violations, with a recommended punishment to follow in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161090,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161089\/revisions\/161090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}