Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) resigned from Congress on Tuesday, 30 minutes before she was scheduled to appear before an ethics panel over her alleged theft of $5 million in taxpayer money to fund her political ambitions.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat, had been charged with stealing $5 million in federal funds. The House Ethics Committee was to take up her case Tuesday.
