Democrat Candidate for NJ Governor Who Was Involved in Annapolis Cheating Scandal Turns Out to be Married to Man Who Also Participated in Annapolis Cheating Scandal

And this Power Bottom couple can't remember whether or not they made $7 million trading in defense stocks while the candidate, "Mikie" Sherrill, was on the House Armed Services Committee.

Now it turns out that both of them participated in a massive cheating scandal at Annapolis in which an entire exam was stolen and shared among students.

So there's no reason to suspect that they're grifters who used the ultimate insider information to make themselves rich.

Democratic New Jersey gubernatorial hopeful Mikie Sherrill's husband was also caught up in the Naval Academy cheating scandal that has rocked her campaign, court documents exclusively obtained by The Post show.

Jason Hedberg was one of about four dozen midshipmen who sued top officials at the Naval Academy, Navy and Pentagon in 1994 in a desperate bid to block an Honor Board at Annapolis from deciding whether they should be dismissed from the school.

"In compliance with the orders of their superior military officers, each named plaintiff was compelled to make inculpatory statements to Navy Inspector General investigators," read the complaint, which charged that the students were denied due process.

The details of any "inculpatory statements" by Hedberg are unclear. However, his name is included in the 1994 commencement program, suggesting that he -- unlike Sherrill -- was cleared to take part in exercises some three months after the suit was filed.

The candidate Mikie wasn't allowed to walk during graduation due to her own involvement in the cheating scandal. She claims her only sin was being too loyal to her fellow cheaters and not testifying against them -- but she's also refusing to release her military records so that we can see whether that was her "only sin" or not.

Sherrill told the New Jersey Globe, which first reported Thursday on her being barred from commencement, that her punishment was a consequence of her decision not to "turn in some of my classmates."

A source close to a rival campaign questioned that statement.

"Nobody, including Mikie Sherrill, was barred from graduation ceremonies for covering for their friends," claimed this person, who has reviewed the documents. "That's a bunch of bulls--. Midshipmen were, however, punished for lying to Naval investigators."

While no evidence has surfaced that the future congresswoman was punished for being untruthful to school officials, there are also indications that she has not been up front about what transpired.

Sherrill's team has rejected requests to release disciplinary records from her academy days, which would provide details of any involvement in the scandal.

In response to inquiries from The Post Friday, Sherril's campaign communications director Sean Higgins said: "The fact [GOP candidate] Jack Ciattarelli and MAGA Republicans are going after Mikie's family is sick and desperate -- Jason graduated [and] served honorably as a Naval Officer.

"The illegal disclosure of Mikie's unredacted personal military records, including her Social Security Number, and the unlawful dissemination of those records by the Ciattarelli campaign is a disgrace and must be investigated."

LOL. Of course she's The Real Victim Here.

Multiple midshipmen acquired and shared answers to a Dec. 14, 1992, exam for Electrical Engineering 311, a mandatory class for all non-engineering majors. The test was administered to 663 students, according to the lawsuit that involved Hedberg.

In a 2002 episode of CBS News' "48 Hours" that reported on the scandal, one of the students involved estimated that "probably 80% of the people who took that test had knowledge and had seen it the night before."

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After graduating, Hedberg became a Navy intelligence officer and Sherrill a Navy pilot. The two have four children together.

Do you smell that? It smells like the New Jersey Democrats are cooking up another Torricelli Option.

If you don't remember that-- back around 2006, Senator Robert Torricelli's fathomless corruption got exposed a month before the election. So the Democrat New Jersey Supreme Court decided that it was now allowed for a political party to replace its candidate with just a couple of weeks before an election.

My internet is going down more often than Kamala Harris at a Democrat Mayor's convention so I might be a little off today.

#MyToasterIsStillLoyal

Update: As a Congressman, "Mikie" is allowed to recommend five New Jerseyans for slots at the Military academies.

Two of the people she nominated are... surprise, her own grifter children. Her griftlings, let's call them.

posted by Ace at 02:34 PM

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