Or as she's now known, 'She Gone Sheila.'
Took long enough, and the woman has got to be cussin' Eric Scummy Swalwell a blue streak for stirring up all this 'kick the bums out' howling.
The woman has been under investigation by the House for two years, and finally was charged with ethics violations in December of this past year.
She still managed to get a delay in an official committee expulsion hearing after those motions were filed immediately after the findings came in, but eventually it all caught up with her.
She was supposed to hear the music this afternoon, and decided to pull the ejection handle to punch out at the very last second.
It was, of course, 'NOT A FAIR PROCESS WAAH!' but the 'honor of her lifetime' to represent the people of her district...
ALERT: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s (D-Fla.) resigns amid probe of alleged campaign finance scheme pic.twitter.com/27pmFiHPPX
— BensonNewsHub (@BensonNewsHub) April 21, 2026
...while also having the opportunity to allegedly steal $5M from FEMA.
South Florida Congresswoman Charged with Stealing $5 Million in FEMA Funds and Making Illegal Campaign Contributions
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.
THAT'S SO UNFAIR
And it all actually was a big mistake in the beginning, her company getting the money and all that - absolutely.
The next mistake, though, was the biggest one - her not giving the errant FEMA deposit back.
Breaking news: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Florida) resigned to avoid a possible expulsion vote on allegations that she used FEMA money mistakenly sent to her family’s health care company during the pandemic to boost her 2022 campaign. https://t.co/PhtWCSXz4E
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2026
OOPS
The feds are always unfair, but she might have thought it was especially so when her Congressional colleagues wound up seeing it the same way.
I mean, come on - anyone can make an accounting error!
Florida Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from Congress on Tuesday afternoon, just before she was to face a House Ethics Committee sanction hearing.
The committee was set to hold a rare public hearing to determine what sanction would be appropriate for it to recommend to the full House against Cherfilus-McCormick.
Last month, Cherfilus-McCormick was found guilty of 25 House ethics violations, including acceptance of improper campaign contributions and commingling of campaign and personal funds. The congresswoman was indicted in November 2025 by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, which she is accused of laundering to support her successful 2021 congressional campaign.
Cherfilus-McCormick has denied wrongdoing, excusing the allegations as an accounting error.
In her resignation announcement, the congresswoman called the process a "witch hunt."
Five million or thirty million - it's just decimals, and they're tricksy, dammit!
Right, Omar?
And confidence was pretty high that even with such close numbers in the divided House, they had enough votes to reach the 2/3 majority required to remove Cherfilus-McCormick if an expulsion vote was the punishment handed down.
...House Democratic leaders had declined to condemn Cherfilus-McCormick, saying they wanted to see the ethics process play out. Potential punishments included a reprimand or a censure, which serve as forms of public rebuke. The committee could also have recommended a fine. The most severe form of punishment was expulsion, but the House has historically been reluctant to serve as the final arbiter of a lawmaker's career, preferring to give that final say to the voters.
Only six members of the House have been expelled. The first three fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and were expelled for disloyalty. The next two had been convicted of crimes. The final one was George Santos, the scandal-plagued freshman who was the subject of a blistering ethics report on his conduct as well as federal indictment. Santos, a New York Republican, served time in prison for ripping off his campaign donors before President Donald Trump granted him clemency, and he has apologized to his former constituents.
Under the Constitution, at least two-thirds of the House has to vote for expulsion for it to occur, a high threshold that requires enormous bipartisan support.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters last week he believes the House will move to expel Cherfilus-McCormick.
"The facts are indisputable at this point, and so I believe it'll be the consensus of this body that she should be expelled," Johnson said.
She can't have been very popular, in addition to the current 'throw the bums out' fervor.
While this quick exit, Stage Right, gets the former congresswoman out of harm's way as far as the House goes, she is still on the hook big-time for the federal charges.
And in a South Florida court, no less. That's not a fun prospect.
...If convicted, Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison. Edwin Cherfilus faces up to 35 years, Leblanc up to 10 years, and Spencer up to 33 years.
U.S. Attorney Reding Quiñones; Special Agent in Charge Brett D. Skiles of the FBI, Miami Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Ronald A. Loecker of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Florida Field Office, made the announcement.
So, there's a moral, maybe even a couple of them in this story. The very first one is 'Don't keep what doesn't belong to you.'
Somehow, that always comes back around to bite you, especially if it came from the government to begin with.
It's one of life's great truisms.
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