{"id":2491199,"date":"2025-09-25T18:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-backs-investigation-into-national-archives-release-of-mikie-sherrill-records\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:21:52","slug":"jeffries-backs-investigation-into-national-archives-release-of-mikie-sherrill-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-backs-investigation-into-national-archives-release-of-mikie-sherrill-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries backs investigation into National Archives&#8217; release of Mikie Sherrill records"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjeffries-backs-investigation-into-national-archives-release-of-mikie-sherrill-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2491199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries supports a criminal investigation into the unauthorized and illegal release of Rep. Mikie Sherrill&#8217;s personal military records by the National Archives. The leaked documents included sensitive information such as Sherrill&#8217;s Social Security number, life insurance details, performance evaluations, and addresses. The National Personnel records Center mistakenly released her full military file to a private individual, Nicholas De Gregorio, who is associated with Sherrill&#8217;s political opponent in the 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >release happened amid renewed scrutiny<\/a> of a 1994 Naval Academy cheating scandal involving Sherrill&#8217;s class, during which she did not cheat but was reportedly punished for not reporting others involved. Sherrill has emphasized her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-leading-amnesty-bill-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud\/\" title=\"GOP Rep. Leading Amnesty Bill Says The Quiet Part Out Loud\">honorable military service<\/a> and condemned the political attacks,while her opponent&#8217;s campaign criticizes her for lack of transparency regarding the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The National Archives apologized, acknowledged the breach, and is reviewing procedures and coordinating with the Navy. Jeffries condemned the release as illegal and called for accountability,accusing the Trump governance and allies of continued law violations. The incident adds tension to the tightly contested New Jersey governor&#8217;s race, where both candidates are polling closely. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Jeffries backs criminal investigation into &lsquo;illegal&rsquo; release of Mikie Sherrill&rsquo;s records<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2240398\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) said on Thursday that he supports a criminal investigation into the &ldquo;unauthorized and illegal&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-archives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Archives<\/a> release of Rep. Mikie Sherrill&rsquo;s personal information &mdash; including her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Social Security<\/a> number.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries said during a press conference that it is &ldquo;outrageous that Donald Trump and his administration, and political hacks connected to them, continue to violate the law.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3825124\/democrats-decry-white-house-intimidation-omb-shutdown-layoffs\/\">Democrats decry White House layoff threat as &lsquo;intimidation&rsquo; ahead of shutdown deadline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3824177\/haley-stevens-rfk-jr-impeachment\/\">Haley Stevens to file articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3823228\/democrats-trump-dig-in-government-shutdown-demands\/\">Democrats and Trump dig in on shutdown demands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Mikie Sherrill is a patriot and a hero,&rdquo; Jeffries said. &ldquo;They will be held accountable.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The release of Sherrill&rsquo;s information came to light on Thursday following a <em>New Jersey Globe <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/governor\/sherrill-didnt-walk-with-her-graduating-class-in-wake-of-navy-academy-cheating-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> on a 1994 cheating scandal at the Naval Academy that resulted in the expulsion of two dozen midshipmen. Sherrill, who attended the academy at that time, did not cheat but said she was not allowed to walk at graduation because she failed to report her classmates involved in the scandal. She is listed as a &ldquo;notable graduate&rdquo; on the school&rsquo;s website and went on to receive the Navy Achievement Medal for saving the life of a classmate at the academy.<\/p>\n<p>Sherrill, who is running to become the next governor of New Jersey, has made her military service as a graduate of the Naval Academy and a helicopter pilot a focal point of her campaign. The 1994 scandal emerged during her 2018 race to flip the 11th District blue, but her campaign at the time told the <em>New Jersey Globe<\/em> she was not involved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rules dictate that military files cannot be made fully available to the general public until 62 years after they finish their military service. The family of a deceased servicemember can request full access, but others requesting access are supposed only to receive portions of the files that are redacted for privacy or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillbilly-elegy-author-jd-vance-confirms-hes-seriously-considering-senate-run-in-ohio\/\" title=\"\u2018Hillbilly Elegy\u2019 Author JD Vance Confirms He\u2019s Seriously Considering Senate Run In Ohio\">national security reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The release of Sherrill&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/loudoun-sheriff-closes-probe-into-anti-racist-group-asking-someone-to-hack-is-not-illegal\/\" title=\"Loudoun Sheriff Closes Probe Into \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 Group: \u2018Asking Someone To Hack Is Not ...\u2019\">records included<\/a> her Social Security number, life insurance information, performance evaluations, and addresses for her and her family. A nondisclosure agreement was also released between her and the U.S. government to safeguard classified information.<\/p>\n<p>Sherrill&rsquo;s full military file was released on June 30 by the National Personnel Records Center, a branch of the Archives, to Nicholas De Gregorio, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> confirmed. The center told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that it became aware of the breach on Tuesday, and a technician did not follow standard protocol when releasing the records and should have only released portions eligible under the Freedom of Information Act rules.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The technician should NOT have released the entire record,&rdquo; Grace McCaffrey, acting director of congressional affairs at the National Archives and Records Administration, told the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The National Archives takes this breach of privacy very seriously, has contacted the congresswoman through her office to apologize and take steps to rectify the situation by reviewing all internal controls and processes at NPRC and coordinating with the Department of the Navy,&rdquo; McCaffrey continued. &ldquo;While breaches of this type do occur, they are exceedingly rare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>McCaffrey said the agency has also alerted its inspector general to the breach.<\/p>\n<p>De Gregorio is an ally of Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican candidate running against Sherrill in the 2025 gubernatorial race, but his campaign neither encouraged nor hired him to access the files.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He told CBS News his actions were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/national-archives-mikie-sherrill-military-record-jack-ciattarelli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not nefarious<\/a> and any attempt to smear the situation as &ldquo;records leaked by the Trump administration to injure her&rdquo; is &ldquo;completely and totally false.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When I saw [Sherrill&rsquo;s] Social (Security number), I was shocked,&rdquo; De Gregorio told the outlet. &ldquo;All of a sudden, the NPRC decides to give it to [me] a random guy. I made no bones like, I wasn&rsquo;t her, I wasn&rsquo;t a family member. There was no relationship there. And so I didn&rsquo;t know what to expect. So, I guess I&rsquo;m a little shocked and kind of disgusted that the social was there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to multiple outlets, Sherrill said she didn&rsquo;t walk at graduation but &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Jack continues to try and use any avenue he can to execute the MAGA playbook of smearing military service,&rdquo; she added.&nbsp; &ldquo;Now, his latest attempt is to go after a 30-year-old widely reported incident when I was an undergraduate at the Naval Academy.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Campaigns seeking out opponents&rsquo; medical records are not uncommon, particularly in a close race where one candidate relies heavily on their military background to sway voters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ciattarelli&rsquo;s campaign told the<em> New Jersey Globe<\/em> that Sherrill&rsquo;s &ldquo;admission&rdquo; that she was &ldquo;implicated in, and punished for,&rdquo; her role in the scandal is both &ldquo;stunning and deeply disturbing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3817775\/energy-focal-point-new-jersey-gubernatorial-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ENERGY POLICY EMERGES AS FOCAL POINT IN NEW JERSEY GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For eight years, Mikie Sherrill has built her entire political brand around her time at the Naval Academy and in the Navy, all the while concealing her involvement in the scandal and her punishment,&rdquo; Eric Arpert, Ciattarelli&rsquo;s campaign manager, told the outlet. &ldquo;The people of New Jersey deserve complete and total transparency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes just a few hours after a poll from Emerson College found Sherrill and Ciattarelli in a dead heat, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3824471\/new-jersey-gubernatorial-race-new-poll-mikie-sherrill-jack-ciattarelli-tied\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">both polling at 43%<\/a>. But Sherrill still holds an 8.5-point advantage across an average of polls, meaning Ciattarelli is the underdog in the battle to flip the governor&rsquo;s mansion red.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffries supports probe into illegal release of Sherrill&#8217;s records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2491200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mikiesherrill-hakeemjeffries-national-archives.jpg?1758818334&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3976,50470,45217,48055,43571],"class_list":["post-2491199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-investigation","tag-jeffries-2","tag-mikie-sherrill","tag-national-archives","tag-records-release"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mikiesherrill-hakeemjeffries-national-archives.jpg?1758818334&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491203,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491199\/revisions\/2491203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}