Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is facing an investigation by the House Ethics Committee over potential campaign finance violations and House rules violations.
The 44-year-old New York native moved to Florida as a teenager and attended high school there before obtaining a degree in political science from Howard University and a law degree from St. Thomas University School of Law. She initially ran for the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 20th Congressional District in 2018 in a bid to unseat incumbent Alcee Hastings. Cherfilus-McCormick lost to Hastings then and again in 2020. However, after Hastings died in office in 2021, she secured a victory in the Democratic primary and then in the general in a special election and took office in January of 2022.
But now, the avowed progressive is the subject of an ethics investigation, announced Wednesday.
In a release, the…
