Federally indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), who is accused of spending stolen disaster relief funds on a $109,000 diamond ring, has edited out what appears to be the jewelry in question from her congressional headshot.
Cherfilus-McCormick posted a photoshopped picture of herself on Christmas Day. Noticeably missing from the photo, an un-doctored version of which serves as Cherfilus-McCormick’s House portrait, is a yellow diamond ring with an accompanying band previously seen on her left hand.
In November, Cherfilus-McCormick was charged with stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, laundering the proceeds, and then making illegal campaign contributions to herself with those gains.
Cherfilus-McCormick’s family-run healthcare company allegedly received an accidental $5 million overpayment from FEMA during the pandemic and proceeded to reroute the money
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