A Florida Democrat just got found guilty of 25 ethics violations — including stealing $5 million in FEMA disaster relief money and laundering it through her congressional campaign — and somehow CNN can’t seem to find the remote control to cover it.

Twenty-five violations! That’s not a rap sheet, that’s a punch card. One more and she gets a free sub sandwich at the federal penitentiary commissary.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) sat through a nearly seven-hour televised House trial on Thursday that stretched past midnight, where a bipartisan panel of four Democrats and four Republicans found her guilty on 25 of 27 charges. We’re talking campaign finance violations, false financial disclosures, money laundering, misusing official funds, and — my personal favorite — “lack of candor” with the Ethics Committee. That’s Congress-speak for lying through your teeth.

Here’s how the scheme worked, and honestly, it’s almost too stupid to believe. Back in 2021, a Florida state agency was distributing emergency COVID-19 relief funds to healthcare companies doing vaccination work. Someone at the agency put a decimal point in the wrong spot and accidentally deposited $5 million into the bank account of Cherfilus-McCormick’s family healthcare company, Trinity Healthcare Services, instead of the $50,000 they were actually approved to receive.

A normal, non-criminal person would have called the state and said, “Hey, you gave us too much money.” Sheila called her brother Edwin and said, “Start moving it.”

The congresswoman and her brother allegedly shuffled that $5 million through multiple bank accounts to disguise where it came from. Ethics investigators found that approximately $3.6 million of those stolen federal funds eventually made their way into her congressional campaign coffers — including a $2 million direct transfer designed to make it look like she was running some kind of powerhouse operation. More than $1.1 million was funneled to friends and relatives who then “donated” it back to her campaign as personal contributions. That’s a textbook straw donor scheme, which is fancy talk for fraud.

Keep in mind — this was FEMA money. Disaster relief funds. Cash that was supposed to help Americans during a pandemic. Cherfilus-McCormick, who previously earned $86,000 a year, suddenly had an “overflow of money” according to ethics investigator Brittney Pescatore. Gee, where’d it all come from, Sheila?

The House Ethics Committee didn’t exactly phone this one in, either. They reviewed over 33,000 documents totaling hundreds of thousands of pages and conducted 28 witness interviews over a three-year investigation. They produced a 242-page report. This wasn’t some Republican hit job — her own party’s members sat on that panel and voted to convict.

And what does Democrat leadership have to say about all this? Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was asked whether Democrats would support expelling Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress. His response? “Next question.”

Real profile in courage there, Hakeem.

Jeffries actually went further and said he’s “a hard no” on expelling her. Remember when Republicans booted George Santos out of Congress for doing essentially the same thing? Democrats were tripping over each other to get to the microphones and demand his removal. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) accidentally said the quiet part out loud: “What’s the difference between that and George Santos?”

Great question, Vicente! The difference is the letter after her name. (D) means never having to say you’re sorry.

Even some of her fellow Democrats can see the hypocrisy. Rep. Stephen Lynch pointed out the obvious: “How do you maintain your integrity and objectivity if you’re going to treat Democrats better than Republicans? That’s tough to explain.” Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar’s brilliant response? “It doesn’t sound good.”

No, Pete. It doesn’t.

Meanwhile, Cherfilus-McCormick’s attorney William Barzee put on quite a performance, arguing his client is “absolutely innocent” while simultaneously admitting she “made a lot of mistakes” on financial forms. He then complained that press coverage of her being found guilty might confuse jurors at her upcoming federal criminal trial. That’s a bold legal strategy — “Your Honor, my client can’t get a fair trial because everyone already knows what she did.”

She faces up to 53 years in federal prison on the criminal charges. Her brother Edwin faces 35 years. Attorney General Pam Bondi didn’t mince words: “Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime.”

This was the first public House ethics trial in 16 years. The last one was Democrat Charlie Rangel back in 2010. Noticing a pattern here?

Cherfilus-McCormick stole money that was meant to help sick and desperate people during a pandemic, laundered it into her campaign to buy herself a seat in Congress, and her own party leader won’t even discuss removing her. Remember that the next time some Democrat lectures you about “protecting democracy.”