Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of stealing and laundering around $5 million in FEMA funds.

The panel's adjudicatory subcommittee, led by House Ethics Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.), deliberated for well past midnight following an hours-long hearing that served as the pan

The House Ethics Committee has ruled that Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick improperly funneled more than $5 million in FEMA funds for personal use.

McCormick of Florida is accused of using part of the $5 million to bolster her campaign and on luxury goods.

The House Ethics Committee found Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick guilty of 25 charges Friday morning following an intense seven-hour public hearing a day earlier. The Florida Democrat was accused of stealing $5 million in pandemic relief money and using it to partially fund her campaign for Congress.

The House Ethics Committee has determined that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) is guilty of 25 violations. According to the allegations, Cherfilus-McCormick misused an overpayment of roughly $5 million in disaster relief funds by funneling them into her campaign.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) was forced to appear Thursday at a rare ethics “trial” on whether she violated House rules by allegedly stealing as much as $5 million in federal funding to finance her political aspirations.

McCormick, a Florida Democrat, could be expelled from Congress for stealing millions in disaster aid payments that were illicitly laundered through her campaign, according to a House panel's Friday findings.