Another member of Congress has resigned yet again under allegations of misconduct.

Florida Democrat Sheila Sherfulus McCormick was due to face the House Ethics Committee today to determine her punishment after it concluded she committed large-scale financial fraud, money laundering, and other violations.

This comes just a week after representatives Eric Swalwell and

Tony Gonzalez resigned amid accusations of sexual misconduct. Lisa Desjardin's been following it all and joins us now.

So Lisa, let's start with Congresswoman Sheriffillus McCormick. Why did she step down now?

As you said, we know the timing. This was just minutes. she announced her resignation before that hearing from the

House Ethics Panel was to recommend a possible punishment for her, possibly expulsion.

Now, that same panel had found she violated 25 House rules, and they range, as you say, from

money laundering to campaign finance issues to financial fraud.

So talking about those even more specifically, the most serious of those violations had to do with $5 million in COVID funding that was sent to her nonprofit organization,

but which she kept and the organization kept some of it allegedly being funneled to her campaign and to herself personally.

Now, she's also facing a criminal case, and this is what she says is the reason she did not cooperate with the Ethics Committee,

that she was holding back because of the criminal case. So let's look at her statement of resignation today.

She said specifically, this was not a fair process, meaning the

ethics process. The ethics committee refused my new attorney's reasonable request for time to

prepare my defense. By going forward with this process, while a criminal indictment is pending,

the committee prevented me from defending myself. Now, members on the ethics panel who have been

investigating her for some two years defended

their process, they say she had ample opportunity to defend herself.

The process worked in some ways in that she decided to resign and sort of face any consequences

that may be coming her way. And certainly the process over the past two years was able to uncover a lot of

evidence in some ways, but in other ways, it was two years of a long time. And so, you know,

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