The case against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick apparently started with a clerical error that caused an extra $5 million to land in a company bank account in 2021, according to a federal grand jury indictment available Thursday.

Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother worked at Trinity Healthcare Services based in Miramar, Fla., which sent purchase orders to the Florida Division of Emergency Management for federal funds to pay for vaccination sites, the indictment states.

One invoice Edwin Cherfilus sent was for $50,578.50, but the FDEM instead sent $5,057,850.00 to an account where they were both authorized signers, according to the indictment.

Cherfilus-McCormick sent her brother a text message of a screenshot of the bank account depicting the overpayment, but the siblings did not retu

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