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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 |       澳门8月10日电　国家财政部和澳门特区政府10日发布联合公告，中央政府将于8月20日在澳门发行60亿元人民币国债。  公告指出，2026年是国家“十五五”规划开局之年，中央政府连续第五年在澳门发行人民币国债，凸显中央政府对澳门经济适度多元发展及特色金融产业竞争力提升的有力支持。此次国债发行的期限结构更趋多元，有利于进一步完善常态化发行机制，为投资者提供更多安全稳健的人民币投资选项，对持续优化澳门债券市场生态、推动澳门与内地及国际市场互联互通发挥积极作用。

三 |   特区政府表示，欢迎中央政府再次在澳门发行人民币国债。国债在澳门的持续发行，是中央政府支持澳门加快培育债券市场、持续推动特色金融业提质发展、促进经济适度多元的重要体现，将有助吸引更多优质发行主体及国际投资者参与澳门债券市场，更好发挥澳门在国家对外开放中的优势和作用，支持澳门更好地融入和服务国家发展大局。

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