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Obstructing an official proceeding was one of the charges in United States v. Joseph, a 2019 case where a Massachusetts state court judge and court officer helped a state court defendant evade a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent by allowing the defendant to leave a court hearing through a rear door of the courthouse. [15]
The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 is a United States federal law that mandates certain practices in financial record keeping and reporting for corporations.The act, Pub. L. 107–204 (text), 116 Stat. 745, enacted July 30, 2002, also known as the "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act" (in the Senate) and "Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and ...
Fischer v. United States, 603 U.S. ___, was a United States Supreme Court case about the proper use of the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding, established in the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, against participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
The charge of obstructing an official proceeding became law through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The law was written in response to major U.S. accounting and corporate scandals — notably when ...
Federal prosecutors have moved to drop charges for some Jan. 6 rioters accused of attempting to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election results following a Supreme Court ruling narrowing ...
Weeks after the Supreme Court narrowed how the Justice Department can pursue obstruction charges against January 6 rioters, federal prosecutors are beginning to offer retooled plea deals or drop ...
On November 11, his lawyers sued to block the subpoena. In their initial court filing, they characterized the committee's investigation as a "quasi-criminal inquest". [79] On December 19, 2022, the committee criminally referred Trump to the DOJ for four suspected crimes. [80] Obstruction of an Official Proceeding (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)) [81]
The obstruction charge stems from an allegation that Johnson removed evidence “related to his criminal activity from Clayton Fitness,” when he became aware that law enforcement was ...