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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 ...
Tampering with evidence, or evidence tampering, is an act in which a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation (usually) by a law-enforcement, governmental, or regulatory authority. [1]
False evidence, fabricated evidence, forged evidence, fake evidence or tainted evidence is information created or obtained illegally in order to sway the verdict in a court case. Falsified evidence could be created by either side in a case (including the police/ prosecution in a criminal case ), or by someone sympathetic to either side.
Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly made false and unsubstantiated claims while denouncing the Manhattan criminal case against him over his alleged falsification of business records ...
But records maintained by the Manhattan criminal court show that at least four defendants who pleaded guilty to that charge during that period were sentenced to a year or less behind bars.
The example Volokh uses is the statement that "Joe deserves to die" which in the context of a murder could be made to be a factual statement. [5] The fifth category is one that is not as firmly set by precedent: false statements, even deliberate lies, against the government may be protected. [11]
Making or using a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim or to an ‘obligation’ to pay money to the government. Engaging in a conspiracy to defraud by the improper submission of a false claim. Concealing, improperly avoiding or decreasing an ‘obligation’ to pay money to the government.
State police records show the department informed local, state and federal prosecutors that undisclosed recordings existed in at least 260 cases dating to 2013, with the bulk of those – 181 ...