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17 Florida sheriff's office employees charged with COVID relief fraud: Feds_我的网站

一 |     江南华南等地仍有强降水和强对流天气　　昨日，江南南部及华南地区再度出现大到暴雨，其中广西东部、广东中部、湖南西南部、江西南部等地部分地区达到大暴雨级别（100～250毫米），广东肇庆、佛山局地出现特大暴雨（252～261毫米）；广西中部、广东中部局地最大小时降雨量70～100毫米，广西北海局地140.8毫米；云南中南部、广西中部、广东中北部、福建南部等地部分地区出现8～10级、局地11级雷暴大风。    The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida announced Thursday that it charged 17 employees of the Broward County Sheriff's Office with wire fraud after they allegedly tried to defraud the government in pandemic relief loans.The defendants, who were charged in separate cases, allegedly received $495,171 in assistance from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and used the proceeds "to unjustly enrich themselves.""No matter the amount, we will not allow limited federal tax dollars, which were intended to provide a lifeline to small businesses as they struggled to stay afloat during the economically devastating pandemic lockdown, to be swindled by those who were employed in a position of trust and cast aside their duty to uphold and abide by the law," Markenzy Lapointe, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said in a statement.The U.S. Attorney's Office charged the defendants in separate indictments that were issued between September 14 and Oct. 11. Their charges include wire fraud, which comes with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if convicted, the U.S.Attorney's Office said.In several of the indictments, the defendants allegedly lied about their income in the application for the assistance, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said in a statement that his office received a tip that employees were participating "in fraudulent schemes to defraud the federal government," and immediately launched an internal investigation."BSO Public Corruption Unit detectives determined more than 100 employees had submitted applications for the PPP loans. Only the employees who did not obtain the loans legally were subject to criminal investigation," Tony said in a statement.The sheriff told reporters that all of the charged employees were in the process of being terminated.“We still have to follow proper protocols and since these are protected members with union rights and other different statutory obligations from the investigation practices that we have to follow, but I’m not going to sugarcoat or dance around this — at the end of the day, they will be gone," Tony told reporters at a news conference.Lapointe said there was no "conspiratorial component" among the 17 charged.Attorney information for the defendants, who the U.S. Attorney's Office said were all employed by the sheriff's office at the time of their alleged defrauding schemes, was not immediately available.Matt Cowart, president of IUPA Local 6020, the union representing BSO law enforcement deputies, said in a statement to ABC affiliate WPLG that the union was not "privy to all of the investigative facts.""Regardless, employees and all citizens are entitled to and shall receive due process through the court system. The Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) is a large agency and contains approximately 5,500 employees," he said in a statement.。　　江南、华南仍有强降水和强对流天气，中央气象台今晨继续发布暴雨橙色预警和强对流天气黄色预警。预计今天白天至夜间，江南中东部和南部、华南中东部和南部等地有大到暴雨，其中，广东中南部的部分地区有大暴雨（100～200毫米）；广西东南部和南部沿海、广东中南部等地的部分地区将有小时雨量大于50毫米的短时强降水天气，局地可达80毫米以上；广西东南部、广东中南部等地的部分地区将有8～10级雷暴大风或冰雹天气，其中广西东南部和南部沿海、广东中南部等地的部分地区将有10级以上雷暴大风。　　明后两天，江南、华南一带的强降水范围会明显收缩，暴雨或大暴雨区主要集中在广东东南部和福建南部。气象专家提醒，近期广西、广东、湖南、江西等地降雨较强且落区高度重叠，公众需高度警惕强降雨或持续降雨可能引发的山洪、泥石流、滑坡等灾害，避免前往山区和地质灾害易发区，并注意防范强对流天气可能造成的不利影响。　　 （中国小康网综合中央气象台）。

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