Already fighting criminal charges that she used stolen COVID relief funds to win a seat in Congress, Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick now faces accusations in Washington of an entirely separate campaign-finance scheme involving “shell companies,” local mayors and hundreds of thousands of dollars in oil money.
The latest allegations, detailed in a House Ethics Committee report, accuse the congresswoman’s team and family of soliciting more than $800,000 from a politically-connected Haitian oil company to secretly boost her 2022 reelection campaign.
The oil company, PetroGaz-Haiti S.A., funneled “impermissible corporate contributions” to Cherfilus-McCormick, the House Ethics Committee wrote, and the congresswoman’s closest advisers and husband set up “shell companies to conceal the source of the funds used to make significant expenditures for the benefit of” her campaign.
