{"id":20629,"date":"2026-03-27T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-democrat-found-guilty-of-house-ethics-violations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:03:01","slug":"florida-democrat-found-guilty-of-house-ethics-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-democrat-found-guilty-of-house-ethics-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Democrat found guilty of House Ethics violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick illicitly funneled millions of dollars to her campaign and committed various campaign finance infractions, a bipartisan House Ethics subcommittee determined Friday \u2014 likely laying the groundwork for a vote by the full legislative body to expel the embattled Florida Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The panel&#8217;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 panel\u2019s first public \u201ctrial\u201d in nearly 16 years. It found &#8220;clear and convincing&#8221; evidence that Cherfilus-McCormick was guilty of all but two of the 27 counts that had been brought against her.<\/p>\n<p>Also facing related federal criminal charges in her home state, the three-term lawmaker is poised to come before the Ethics Committee again soon, when members of the committee will convene to consider what penalty to recommend to the full House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick illicitly funneled millions of dollars to her campaign and committed various campaign finance infractions, a bipartisan House Ethics subcommittee determined Friday \u2014 likely laying the groundwork for a vote by the full legislative body to expel the embattled Florida Democrat. The panel&#8217;s adjudicatory subcommittee, led by House Ethics Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629","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=20629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}