Everything to know about Mikie Sherrill’s Naval Academy cheating scandal

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00:00The high-stakes New Jersey governor's race is looking to be a nail-biter as the Republican

00:04candidate Jack Cittarelli is running neck and neck against the Democrat, Congresswoman

00:09Mikey Sherrill, in the race to be Jersey's top dog. Sherrill's commanding lead over

00:15Cittarelli has dissipated as the Democratic gubernatorial nominee's campaign hit a few

00:20speed bumps. One scandal that keeps rocking the Montclair resident and former prosecutor

00:25is her involvement in an infamous U.S. Naval Academy cheating scandal. The scandal revolved

00:30around a December 14, 1992 exam for Electrical Engineering 311. At the time, the Washington

00:37Post reported that of the 663 students who took the exam, 88 were found guilty of cheating.

00:44Of those, about two dozen were expelled, and at least 64 received lesser penalties, such

00:49as late graduation. As for Sherrill, she has never been named as one of the students who

00:54cheated, but she did raise some eyebrows when it was revealed that she didn't walk at the

00:59May 25, 1994 graduation.

01:01There was a test at the school that was stolen. I did not realize that it was stolen. I took

01:09the test. Afterwards, I knew what the rumor mill was. I knew people who were implicating in it.

01:17I didn't come forward with that information.

01:21But Sherrill can't keep her story straight. Last week, her Republican opponent,

01:25Cittarelli, threw the issue in her face during a heated debate moment.

01:29The difference between me and the Congresswoman? I got to walk at my college graduation. I've

01:35never broken the wall.

01:35Then, when she was questioned about the scandal afterwards, this time, Sherrill appeared to

01:39suggest that she did, in fact, come forward with the information she had about her classmates.

01:44There were hundreds of people in my class that spoke to investigators. When I did, I told

01:52them what I knew.

01:52Sherrill has refused to release her full disciplinary record, which would paint a fuller picture of

01:58what happened.