{"id":72595,"date":"2026-04-24T20:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/florida-dem-filed-for-re-election-days-before-resignation-as-house-ethics-committee-ramped-up-pressure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:55:44","slug":"florida-dem-filed-for-re-election-days-before-resignation-as-house-ethics-committee-ramped-up-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/florida-dem-filed-for-re-election-days-before-resignation-as-house-ethics-committee-ramped-up-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Dem filed for re-election days before resignation as House Ethics Committee ramped up pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is still registered to run for re-election despite having resigned from office amid congressional and federal probes for allegedly mishandling disaster relief<\/a> funding for personal gain.<\/p>\n

On April 17, Cherfilus-McCormick submitted a notice<\/a> of her candidacy to the Florida Department of State as a Democrat just a week before officially stepping down from office.<\/p>\n

She resigned on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The filing raises questions about whether Cherfilus-McCormick believes she can still pursue political office despite facing intense scrutiny at the moment.<\/p>\n

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Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Cherfilus-McCormick\u2019s decision to resign from office came right before the House Ethics Committee was scheduled<\/a> to recommend she be punished for misusing disaster relief funding that she allegedly funneled through several companies into her campaign coffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The committee found that she had committed 18 campaign finance violations, five counts of false financial disclosures, three counts of misusing official funds and one count of lack of candor.<\/p>\n

Cherfilus-McCormick maintained her innocence but announced that she would defend<\/a> herself outside of her time in office.<\/p>\n

“This was not a fair process. The Ethics Committee refused my new attorney\u2019s reasonable request for time to prepare my defense. I simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on, and my good name to be tarnished,” Cherfilus-McCormick said in a press release.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Rather than play these political games, I choose to step away so that I can devote my time to fighting for my neighbors in Florida\u2019s 20th district. I hereby resign from the 119th Congress, effective immediately.”<\/p>\n

While Cherfilus-McCormick’s departure from Congress halted the<\/a> Ethics Committee\u2019s authority over her, she also faces federal charges.<\/p>\n

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She was indicted by a Miami grand<\/a> jury<\/a> in November for allegedly stealing $5 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).<\/p>\n

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> has not yet announced a date for a special election to fill her vacant seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is still registered to run for re-election despite having resigned from office amid congressional and federal probes for allegedly mishandling disaster relief funding for personal gain. On April 17, Cherfilus-McCormick submitted a notice of her candidacy to the Florida Department of State as a Democrat just a week before officially stepping down from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}