A Democratic congressswoman accused of illegally using federal funds to fund her election bid resigned from Congress on Tuesday and accused the House Ethics Committee of launching a “witch hunt” against her.
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned on Tuesday in a statement maintaining her innocence in an Ethics probe into allegations that she stole $5m in FEMA funding for Covid vaccinations, for which she’s on federal trial in Florida.
“I hereby resign from the 119th Congress, effective immediately,” Cherfilus-McCormick wrote in a statement posted to X/Twitter on Tuesday afternoon.
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