From Fox News: A former classmate of gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill said the New Jersey Democrat is concealing her true involvement in a massive cheating scandal that rocked the U.S. Naval Academy in the ’90s.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Brent Sadler, a Heritage Foundation senior research fellow who served 26 years in the Navy after graduating from the Naval Academy in 1994, suggested that Sherill’s involvement in the scandal goes deeper than she is letting on.
He said that to receive the punishment imposed on her, being kept from graduating with her class, Sherill would have had to have lied or obscured the facts at some point.
“At some point in time, she lied, or she obscured the facts. I would say lying, and that’s why she didn’t graduate or walk across the stage. Because if you simply did not report something, it wasn’t grounds for honor code violations at the time,” he explained.
The New Jersey Globe first reported in September that improperly unsealed military records had revealed that Sherrill was prevent from participating in her commencement due to disciplinary action involving midshipmen stealing test answers. Sherrill claimed that she was prevented from taking part in the graduation ceremony only because she refused to turn in her classmates who had cheated.
Many are not buying Sherrill’s story, and her Republican gubernatorial opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, has called for her to release her full academic, disciplinary and military records relating to her time at the Naval Academy. So far, she has not done so.
Now Sadler is also saying there’s more to the story than what Sherrill has revealed.
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