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Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(MIAMI) 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. Attor

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