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...

legal contexts, making false statements can have serious repercussions such as defamation, fraud, or perjury. The accuracy of statements is pivotal in maintaining...

She pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of making false statements. In September 2022, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed...

June 2023, a criminal grand jury indicted Trump on one count of making "false statements and representations", specifically by hiding subpoenaed classified...

indicted on 21 felony counts, including wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements, for allegedly diverting money raised during the campaign to a...

June 2007. He pled guilty to conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements during bankruptcy proceedings. In 2008, Pearlman was convicted...

nine counts of federal crimes, including criminal conspiracy, making false statements, securities fraud, tax fraud, and securities law violations, and...

mail fraud, embezzlement, making false statements to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and making false statements to a futures association registered...

mail fraud, money laundering, making false statements, perjury, theft from an employee benefit plan, and making false filings with the SEC. The plea...

of one count of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of making false statements to agents of the FBI, but the jury deadlocked on whether or not...

against the PAP's Ng Pock Too. In 1986, following convictions for making false statements about the Workers' Party's accounts, Jeyaretnam was not only fined...

at the direction of a foreign power, obstructing justice, and making false statements to law enforcement. He was jailed for two days before being released...

Mattel in 1975. Investigations continued and she was charged with fraud and false reporting by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She pleaded no...

culpability attaches only at the instant the declarant falsely asserts the truth of statements (made or to be made) that are material to the outcome of...

States constitutional law, false statements of fact are assertions, which are ostensibly facts, that are false. Such statements are not always protected...

Lieber was convicted of six felonies, including two counts of making false statements to the FBI and investigators from the Department of Defense and...

a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal, and making false statements and representations. In February 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals...

Cope, Charles W. (February 2015). "United States Held Liable for Making False Statements to Foreign Tax Authority". copetax.com. Retrieved May 27, 2015...

the Espionage Act. The other eight charges against him included making false statements and engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. The most serious...

eight criminal charges: five counts of tax evasion; one count of making false statements to a financial institution; one count of willfully causing an unlawful...

and was sentenced to probation. In 2019, Black was arrested for making false statements to possess weapons and was sentenced to nearly four years in federal...

Swiss president Alain Berset for allegedly abusing his office and making false statements on Swiss television regarding COVID-19. The case was dismissed...

of making false statements to federal officials and filing false tax returns) and Meyya Meyyappan (a NASA scientist who pled guilty to making false statements...

scandal. In 2006 he was found guilty of conspiracy, insider trading, making false statements, and securities fraud. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison and...

guilty to accessory to murder after the fact and three counts of making a false statement. On August 14, 2023, Aguilar was sentenced to the maximum of 30...

tendency to lie. It involves a pervasive pattern of intentionally making false statements with the aim to deceive others, sometimes for no clear or apparent...

conspiracy to obstruct, of obstruction of an agency proceeding, and of making false statements to federal investigators and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve...

essay by columnist Bari Weiss. Weinstein has been criticized for making false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, and for spreading misinformation...

nearly 70 million Americans. Muir frequently fact-checked Trump for making false statements, including Trump's claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield...

rather than making an unintentional mistake. A number of governments use regulations or other laws and methods to limit false advertising. False advertising...