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Florida congresswoman accused of stealing COVID-19 funds pleads not guilty 3 months after indictment
Cherfilus-McCormick faces 15 federal counts including theft, money laundering, and false tax statements related to a $5 million overpayment to her family’s health care company.
- On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick pleaded not guilty, with attorney William Barzee entering the plea at Miami federal court because she was in Washington, D.C.
- A mistaken $5 million transfer to the family company prompted the federal indictment after Edwin Cherfilus requested $50,000 and the excess was not returned, prosecutors say.
- The indictment details money routed through friends and relatives into campaign donations, charging U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick with 15 federal counts and spending more than $100,000 on a 3-carat yellow diamond ring.
- U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was arrested in November, released on a $60,000 bond, and ordered to surrender her passport with travel limited to four regions; her case was taken over this week.
- The prior civil settlement and her role in Congress frame the case's broader stakes, as the Florida Department of Emergency Management sued Trinity and the company repaid all last year.
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South Florida congresswoman accused of stealing COVID-19 funds pleads not guilty
A Florida congresswoman charged with conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds has formally pleaded not guilty nearly three months after her indictment. U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was not present for Tuesday's arraignment in Miami federal court, but her attorney, William Barzee, entered the plea on her behalf.
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Florida congresswoman accused of stealing COVID-19 funds pleads not guilty 3 months after indictment
A Florida congresswoman charged with conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds has formally pleaded not guilty nearly three months after her indictment.
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