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A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts. [1] False accusations are also known as groundless accusations, unfounded accusations, false allegations, false claims or unsubstantiated allegations. They can occur in any of the following contexts: Informally in everyday life
Walmart must pay almost $35 million to one of its former truck drivers after a California jury found the retailer had falsely accused him of workers' compensation fraud and wrongfully terminated him.
Zain was charged with fraud, but his trial was delayed indefinitely after he was diagnosed with liver cancer. In 2001, he was charged with four counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, but the jury deadlocked. A new fraud trial was later scheduled for July 2003.
Dallas attorney Sidney Powell, who made false allegations about the 2020 election in Tarrant County, pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in ...
The court’s Republican justices ruled that people engaging in election protests should be immune from defamation claims, even if they spread false information.
Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters falsely [12] asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, but few such assertions were made in court. [13] Every state except Wisconsin [ 14 ] met the December 8 statutory "safe harbor" deadline to resolve disputes and certify voting results.
Exclusive: Anthony Williams “spent his life fighting crime, and now to be accused of a crime so heinous as trafficking his own wife is unfathomable,” attorney Jasmine Rand told The Independent.
Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, [1] even by merely ...