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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.。

二 |     [데일리안 = 이지희 기자] 인천 월미도에서 '디스코 팡팡'을 타던 30대 이용객이 놀이기구 밖으로 튕겨 나가는 사고가 발생한 가운데 사고 당시 이용객이 벗겨진 신발을 다시 신으려다 한쪽 팔을 풀었던 것으로 확인됐다.                   ⓒMBC인천 제물포경찰서는 26일 업무상 과실치상 의혹이 제기된 월미도 디스코 팡팡 사고와 관련해 입건 전 조사에 착수했다고 밝혔다.사고는 지난 23일 오후 9시 23분께 인천시 제물포구 북성동의 한 놀이공원에서 발생했다. 당시 디스코 팡팡을 이용하던 30대 A씨가 운행 중 놀이기구 바깥으로 튕겨 나가 떨어졌다.A씨는 사고 직후 머리와 목 부위에 통증을 호소해 119 구급대에 의해 병원으로 옮겨져 치료받았다. 다행히 생명에는 지장이 없는 상태로 전해졌다.A씨는 경찰에 "놀이기구를 타던 중 신발 한쪽이 벗겨지자 이를 다시 신으려고 한쪽 팔을 풀었고, 이 과정에서 순간적으로 몸이 뒤로 넘어졌다"는 취지로 사고 당시 상황을 진술했다.경찰은 A씨를 상대로 구체적인 사고 경위를 확인한 뒤 놀이기구를 조작한 디제이(DJ)와 시설 책임자 등을 상대로 업무상 과실 여부를 조사할 방침이다.。

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