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

一 |     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.。    베냐민 네타냐후 이스라엘 총리. (사진=이스라엘 총리실)베냐민 네타냐후 이스라엘 총리가 지난달 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령과의 회담에서 외교 및 군사적 행동, 대이란 봉쇄 강화라는 세 가지 대(對)이란 접근법을 논의했다고 밝혔다. 그는 봉쇄 강화 방안을 미국의 최근 대이란 경제 전쟁과 연관 지으며 이란과의 합의 가능성에는 회의적인 입장을 드러냈다.25일(현지시간) 이스라엘 총리실에 따르면 네타냐후 총리는 전날 예루살렘 행사 연설에서 "몇 주 전 오벌 오피스에서 트럼프 대통령과 세 가지 선택지를 논의했다"고 말했다.첫 번째인 외교적 해법에는 강한 회의를 드러냈다. 그는 "물론 합의할 수는 있다. 좋은 합의라면 반대하지 않는다. 하지만 나는 저 야만인들과 합의를 이룰 수 있을지 의문이다. 단언컨대 합의는 불가능하다"고 목소리를 높였다.두 번째 선택지인 군사적 행동에 대해서는 "우리는 이란이 공격하도록 내버려 두지 않을 것이며 만약 그들이 우리를 공격한다면 그들이 상상했던 것 이상의, 지금까지 겪은 그 어떤 것보다 훨씬 강력한 타격을 입게 될 것"이라고 경고했다.세 번째 선택지는 대이란 포위망 강화였다. 네타냐후 총리는 이를 트럼프 대통령에게 제안하며 "결정은 당신의 몫"이라고 말했다고 전했다. 그러면서 미국이 지난 24일 발표한 새 대이란 제재를 이 압박 전략의 실행 결과로 평가하며 "이란은 물론 그 끔찍한 독재 정권을 돕는 자들에 대한 포위망을 강화한 것"이라고 말했다.이번 제재는 스콧 베선트 미 재무장관이 '경제적 왕따 작전'이라고 칭한 조치로, 디지털 자산·기술·금·항공·해운 분야에서 이란과 거래하는 다른 국가에 2차 제재를 부과하는 내용을 핵심으로 한다.。

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