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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Faces 53 Years In Prison...

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) was indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida for allegedly stealing $5 million in FEMA overpayments to her company and funneling some of the money into her congressional campaign.

Why it matters: Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted, Justice Department prosecutors said in a press release announcing the indictment.

The Florida Democrat has been under investigation by House ethics watchdogs since 2023 over alleged improper donations to the special election campaign that first got her elected to Congress.

Cherfilus-McCormick, who has denied any wrongdoing, issued a statement Thursday morning calling the indictment "unjust," "baseless," and a "sham," declaring, "I am innocent."

The details: The indictment alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother received a $5 million overpayment in 2021 as part of a FEMA-funded COVID vaccination staffing contract to their family's health care company, according to prosecutors from the Southern District of Florida.

The prosecutors say Cherfilus-McCormick and co-defendents then laundered the money and that a "substantial portion" of it went to her campaign to succeed deceased Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) in 2021.

Cherfilus-McCormick is known to have loaned her 2021 campaign $3.7 million, but eventually repaid $2 million of that.

What they're saying: "The timing alone is curious and clearly meant to distract from far more pressing national issues," Cherfilus-McCormick said of the indictment in her statement on Thursday.

"From day one, I have cooperated with every lawful request, and I will continue to do so until this matter is resolved."

State of play: Cherfilus-McCormick was already facing a 2026 primary challenge from 26-year-old teacher Elijah Manley, who has based his campaign on allegations of corruption against her.

She is part of a growing cohort of establishment House Democrats to be challenged from the left in their primaries.

"Today's indictment is a sad moment for the people of Florida's 20th Congressional District," Manley said in a statement Wednesday. "The people of FL-20 are ready to move past this era of fraud, corruption, and distractions."

Manley out-raised Cherfilus-McCormick between July and September of this year, bringing in $114,000 in donations to her $68,000.

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Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Receives 14-Year Sentence For Illegal Contributions Tied To Obama Campaign

Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.

Michel, 52, declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him.

In April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. The trial in Washington, D.C., included testimony from actor Leonardo DiCaprio and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Justice Department prosecutors said federal sentencing guidelines recommended a life sentence for Michel, whom they said "betrayed his country for money" and "lied unapologetically and unrelentingly to carry out his schemes."

"His sentence should reflect the breadth and depth of his crimes, his indifference to the risks to his country, and the magnitude of his greed," they wrote.

Defense attorney Peter Zeidenberg said his client's 14-year sentence is "completely disproportionate to the offense." Michel will appeal his conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer.

Zeidenberg had recommended a three-year prison sentence. A life sentence would be an "absurdly high" punishment for Michel, given that it is typically reserved for deadly terrorists and drug cartel leaders, Michel's attorneys said in a court filing.

"The Government's position is one that would cause Inspector Javert to recoil and, if anything, simply illustrates just how easily the Guidelines can be manipulated to produce absurd results, and how poorly equipped they are, at least on this occasion, to determine a fair and just sentence," they wrote.

Michel, a Brooklyn native whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Haiti, was a founding member of the Fugees along with childhood friends Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean. Their hip-hop band won two Grammy Awards and sold tens of millions of albums.

Michel obtained more than $120 million from Malaysian billionaire Low Taek Jho — also known as Jho Low — and steered some of that money through straw donors to Obama's campaign.

Michel said during trial that he viewed Low's payments as "free money," and accepted the millions over the course of nine months to help Low secure a photo op with Obama. He said under oath at the time that no one told him such payments toward political donations could have been unlawful or violations of campaign finance laws.

The Justice Department also charged Michel with serving as an unregistered foreign agent for China, alleging that in 2017 he sought to sway the Trump administration to halt its probe into Low and to extradite a Chinese government target living in the U.S. That individual, dissident Miles Guo, was charged in New York in a billion-dollar fraud case and is still in custody.

Low, who has lived in China, was one of the primary financiers of "The Wolf of Wall Street," a movie starring DiCaprio. Low is a fugitive but has maintained his innocence.

"Low's motivation for giving Mr. Michel money to donate was not so that he could achieve some policy objective. Instead, Low simply wanted to obtain a photograph with himself and then-President Obama," Michel's attorneys wrote.

In August 2024, the judge rejected Michel's request for a new trial based in part on his defense attorney's use of a generative artificial intelligence program during his closing of the trial's arguments. The judges said that and other trial errors didn't amount to a serious miscarriage of justice.

Robert Legare contributed to this report.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.