Exclusive | Mikie Sherrill keeps changing her story about Naval Academy cheating scandal: I dont buy it

Mikie Sherrill can’t keep her story straight.The New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nominee keeps changing her account of her involvement in an infamous 1990s US Naval Academy cheating scandal — and alumni don’t believe her latest explanation.“I don’t buy it, and I’m kind of speaking on behalf of actually a lot of classmates that reached out to me,” Brent Sadler, who graduated from the Academy in 1994, the same class as Sherrill, and serves as a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told The Post.Sherrill, last month, confirmed she didn’t walk during her class’ commencement and claimed she was penalized because she “didn’t turn in some of my classmates.”“There was a test at the school that was stolen.I did not realize that it was stolen.

I took the test, afterwards, I knew what the rumor mill was.I knew people who were implicated in it.

I didn’t come forward with that information,” the congresswoman explained at an event last month.But then last week, following her debate against Republican Jack Ciattarelli, Sherrill appeared to suggest that she did, in fact, come forward with that information.“There were hundreds of people in my class that spoke to investigators.When I did, I told them what I knew,” she told reporters after her second debate when asked about her explanation.

Her campaign declined to answer questions from The Post on whether that means Sherrill eventually did rat out her classmates.The New Jersey Globe, which broke the story about her being barred from walking, reported that there had been rumors during her 2018 congressional race that she was caught up in the cheating scandal, and it had been “suggested” to the outlet “at the time that Sherrill was not involved.”Sherrill has refused to release her full record, which would paint a fuller picture of what happened.A source who was involved in the Naval Academy’s investigation into the cheating scandal also expressed skepticism about Sherrill...