The Home Ethics Committee held their scheduled adjudicatory listening to, extra generally known as a “trial”, towards Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Sadly, not one of the primary broadcast community newscasts noticed match to hold the story.
PBS NewsHour did run that report. Right here it’s, as aired on Thursday, March twenty sixth, 2026:
Zero seconds on ABC, CBS, or NBC for the Home Ethics Committee “trial” of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Solely PBS picked up the story for NewsHour, and omitted the main points of the costs towards her. Protection for Cherfilus-McCormick is considerably (D)ifferent than it… pic.twitter.com/JXtKs94ciw
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 27, 2026
JOHN YANG: Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who has been indicted for allegedly stealing tens of millions in taxpayer cash, confronted a uncommon public Ethics Committee listening to in Congress as we speak. The bipartisan panel, which hasn’t held a public listening to towards a sitting member of the Home in additional than 15 years, started this investigation in 2023. Members questioned why they need to delay their conclusion as she requests.
MARK DESAULNIER: And the American persons are entitled to demand accountability of all of us when their- if their elected representatives are with out integrity.
YANG: Cherfilus-McCormick’s lawyer joined the case lower than three weeks in the past. The congresswoman has denied any wrongdoing and has pleaded Not Responsible to the federal expenses towards her. The results of the ethics course of might carry political penalties together with presumably getting expelled from the Home.
The networks proceed their ongoing blackout of this story. Not a second of it aired on ABC, CBS or ABC’s night newscasts. This main omission joins their omission of the IOC’s ban on “trans ladies” through the 2028 Video games and onward thereafter.
The PBS merchandise just isn’t good, although. Viewers by no means as soon as heard any element of the egregious expenses filed towards Cherfilus-McCormick. Per the indictment:
The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it by a number of accounts to disguise its supply. Prosecutors allege {that a} substantial portion of the misappropriated funds was used as candidate contributions to Cherfilus-McCormick’s 2021 congressional marketing campaign and for the non-public good thing about the defendants.
The indictment additional alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick and Nadege Leblanc, 46, of Miramar, organized extra contributions utilizing straw donors, funneling different monies from the FEMA-funded Covid-19 contract to pals and family who then donated to the marketing campaign as if utilizing their very own cash.
The congresswoman can also be alleged to have bought a $100,000 diamond ring. Had a Republican been accused of doing any of this, it will dominate information protection nonstop till the individual is not in Congress. We all know this as a result of that is precisely what occurred with George Santos. The media drove the story till Santos was expelled from Congress.
With Cherfilus-Mccormick, we get the opposite. Suppression in service of not letting the story get out into the general public. If it weren’t for double requirements, there can be none in any respect.
