‘She lied’: Mikie Sherrill's classmate says involvement in cheating scandal deeper than she claims
Sherill has downplayed her involvement, saying, 'I didn’t turn in some of my classmates, so I didn’t walk'
By Peter Pinedo Fox News
Published October 21, 2025 8:00am EDT
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.
Amidst an already bitter gubernatorial race, the New Jersey Globe first reported in September on improperly unsealed military records that revealed that Sherrill was kept from participating in her commencement due to disciplinary action involving midshipmen stealing test answers in a particularly challenging electrical engineering course required for all non-engineering majors.
Sherill has downplayed her involvement, saying, "I didn’t turn in some of my classmates, so I didn’t walk but graduated and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy, serving for nearly ten years with the highest level of distinction and honor."
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