{"id":15892,"date":"2025-11-21T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/following-indictment-florida-dem-escapes-expulsion-vote-at-least-for-a-time\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:20:18","slug":"following-indictment-florida-dem-escapes-expulsion-vote-at-least-for-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/following-indictment-florida-dem-escapes-expulsion-vote-at-least-for-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Following indictment, Florida Dem escapes expulsion vote \u2014 at least for a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) has escaped an expulsion vote &mdash; for now.  The Florida Democrat was indicted by the Justice Department on Wednesday evening on charges of stealing emergency disaster funding to enrich her family and underwrite her campaign. Cherfilus-McCormick has denied the charges, but that did nothing to discourage Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5616451-mccormick-ethics-committee-investigation\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) has escaped an expulsion vote &mdash; for now. The Florida Democrat was indicted by the Justice Department on Wednesday evening on charges of stealing emergency disaster funding to enrich her family and underwrite her campaign. Cherfilus-McCormick has denied the charges, but that did nothing to discourage Rep&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}