The Gateway Pundit reported that far-left New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) was blocked from walking with her graduating class at the US Naval Academy (USNA) after being caught up in a cheating scandal.
According to records obtained by The New Jersey Globe, Sherrill’s name “was not included on the commencement program” during the May 25, 1994, ceremony.
Despite the USNA’s honor code, the congresswoman said she was barred because she would not “rat out” classmates involved in the scandal.
As the gubernatorial race tightens against her opponent, Republican Jack Ciattarelli, Sherrill appears to be changing her story yet again.
Now, Sherrill claims she DID come forward to speak with investigators.
Speaking with reporters last week following a debate with Ciattarelli, Sherrill said, “There were hundreds of people in my class that spoke to investigators. When I did, I told them what I knew.”
But some of Sherrill’s former classmates aren’t buying it.
“I don’t buy it, and I’m kind of speaking on behalf of actually a lot of classmates that reached out to me,” Brent Sadler, who graduated from the academy in 1994, the same class as Sherrill, and serves as a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told The Post.
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Sherrill has refused to release her full disciplinary record, which would paint a fuller picture of what happened.
A source who was involved in the Naval Academy’s investigation into the cheating scandal also expressed skepticism about Sherrill’s version of events, saying, “There would have to be more” to the story based on the punishment she received.
Sherrill is also under fire for a scandal involving her children.
A June press release proclaimed, “I am so proud of all the young men and women from NJ-11 who are reporting to the military academies or academy preparatory programs this summer.”
Sherrill failed to mention, however, that out of the 24 students from her district being appointed to various military academies, two of her children, Lincoln and Margaret Hedberg, were among the appointees.
Although Sherrill did not nominate her children, both of them being accepted at the same time raises accusations of nepotism, considering that only 22 students from her district were appointed and, overall, the U.S. Naval Academy has a highly competitive 9% acceptance rate.