South Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned Tuesday afternoon, minutes before a scheduled Ethics Committee hearing and vote on what sanctions she should face for the more than two dozen counts of misconduct her colleagues charged her with last month.
In a public statement, Cherfilus-McCormick called the committee’s two-year long investigation into her a “witch hunt” and decried the committee for not holding off proceedings until after her criminal trial over federal charges accusing her of stealing covid relief funds. She has pleaded not guilty to those charges.
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