{"id":18435,"date":"2026-01-30T22:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-ethics-finds-substantial-evidence-of-fraud-charges-against-florida-democrat-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:20:40","slug":"house-ethics-finds-substantial-evidence-of-fraud-charges-against-florida-democrat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-ethics-finds-substantial-evidence-of-fraud-charges-against-florida-democrat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House Ethics finds &#8216;substantial evidence&#8217; of fraud charges against Florida Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of House lawmakers found &ldquo;substantial evidence&rdquo; that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who&#8217;s facing federal fraud charges, committed conduct outlined in the indictment against her. The investigative subcommittee under House Ethics found violations of campaign finance laws and regulations; criminal laws; the Ethics in Government Act&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/29\/congress\/house-ethics-fraud-evidence-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-00755641\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of House lawmakers found &ldquo;substantial evidence&rdquo; that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who&#8217;s facing federal fraud charges, committed conduct outlined in the indictment against her. The investigative subcommittee under House Ethics found violations of campaign finance laws and regulations; criminal laws; the Ethics in Government Act&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435","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=18435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}