The DemocRAT way, with tax payer money - - Florida Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is facing a sweeping federal indictment after prosecutors accused her of siphoning off millions in disaster relief money and using a chunk of it to bolster her first run for Congress. A grand jury in Miami handed down the charges Wednesday, alleging the congresswoman and several associates pocketed a $5 million FEMA overpayment tied to a COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021 — then laundered the money through a web of accounts, shell donors, and falsified tax filings. The charges go further. Investigators say Cherfilus-McCormick and a co-defendant, Nadege Leblanc, 46, orchestrated a straw-donor scheme, directing FEMA-funded contract money to friends and relatives who made campaign donations under their own names to disguise the true source. Prosecutors also charged the congresswoman and her 2021 tax preparer, David K. Spencer, 41, with conspiring to file a false federal tax return by masking political expenses and personal spending as business deductions and inflating charitable contributions.--https://mxmnews.com/article/70bbc46c-1715-45b0-b3f6-58cb4f1174be?democrat-congresswoman-charged-with-stealing-staggering-5-million-in-fema-cash