17 BSO deputies charged with PPP fraud in South Florida's broadest police scandal in decades



U.S. Attorney Markenzy LaPointe briefs reporters Thursday on the arrests of 17 BSO deputies on federal fraud charges. Broward Sheriff stands to LaPointe's right.

By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

In the most sweeping scandal to hit a South Florida police agency since the indictment of 13 Miami officers in a deadly gun-planting conspiracy in 2001, 17 Broward Sheriff’s deputies turned themselves in Thursday to face federal fraud charges for stealing from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and another pandemic relief loan program.

The theft, by usual federal prosecutorial standards, was small potatoes. In all, the 17 deputies stole a total of $495,000, said U.S. Attorney Markenzy LaPointe during a Thursday afternoon press conference at the Broward Sheriff’s Office. He did not say how the accused spent those stolen funds.


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