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.。 AI摘要 福州一导游柯某带团时兜售特产，被福州市文旅局罚款1000元，涉事旅行社受警告。该行为违反相关法规，虽无违法所得且情节较轻，仍被依法处罚，明确了导游执业红线。 导游带团途中兜售特产，难逃执法监管！近期，福州市文化和旅游局查处一起导游违法向游客兜售物品案，涉事导游柯某被罚款1000元，委派旅行社被警告，明确了导游执业红线。 近日，福州市文化和旅游局接到游客投诉，反映福州某旅行社导游在带团过程中向游客兜售物品。经执法核查，导游柯某受福州某旅行社委派，在今年4月30日“福州周边一日游”带团期间，在旅游大巴上向游客兜售海带、海苔等特产。 经认定，柯某的行为违反了《导游人员管理条例》第十五条和《导游管理办法》第二十三条第八项相关规定。鉴于当事人无违法所得、违法情节较轻，福州市文化和旅游局依法对导游柯某作出罚款1000元的行政处罚，并对委派柯某的涉事旅行社给予警告行政处罚。
二 | 案例点睛 根据《导游人员管理条例》第十五条和第二十三条规定，导游人员进行导游活动，不得向旅游者兜售物品或者购买旅游者的物品，不得以明示或者暗示的方式向旅游者索要小费。
三 | 导游人员进行导游活动，向旅游者兜售物品或者购买旅游者的物品的，或者以明示或者暗示的方式向旅游者索要小费的，由旅游行政部门责令改正，处1000元以上3万元以下的罚款；有违法所得的，并处没收违法所得；情节严重的，由省、自治区、直辖市人民政府旅游行政部门吊销导游证并予以公告；对委派该导游人员的旅行社给予警告直至责令停业整顿。
四 | 《导游管理办法》第二十三条第八项规定，导游在执业过程中不得向旅游者兜售物品。
五 | 第三十二条第一款第八项明确，存在前述违规行为的，依照《导游人员管理条例》第二十三条予以处罚。（记者 林春长 通讯员 陈子彧）。
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