{"id":5436,"date":"2026-01-11T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:56:34","slug":"florida-congresswoman-accused-of-stealing-covid-funds-maintains-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/11\/florida-congresswoman-accused-of-stealing-covid-funds-maintains-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida congresswoman accused of stealing COVID funds maintains innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick said she is innocent after a brief hearing in Miami federal court related to allegations that she conspired to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds connected to her family\u2019s health care company, Trinity Healthcare Services. Her scheduled arraignment was postponed to Jan. 20 at her attorney\u2019s request so she can finalize her legal team, with prosecutors not objecting and the judge approving the delay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 29, 2025 <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-charged-funds-f023eb73a84bb65cf6462485cc22ff4d\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick said she is innocent after a brief hearing in Miami federal court related to allegations that she conspired to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds connected to her family\u2019s health care company, Trinity Healthcare Services. Her scheduled arraignment was postponed to Jan. 20 at her attorney\u2019s request so she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}