• 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...
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  • legal contexts, making false statements can have serious repercussions such as defamation, fraud, or perjury. The accuracy of statements is pivotal in maintaining...
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    mail fraud, embezzlement, making false statements to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and making false statements to a futures association registered...
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    June 2023, a criminal grand jury indicted Trump on one count of making "false statements and representations", specifically by hiding subpoenaed classified...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Paul Bilzerian (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    nine counts of federal crimes, including criminal conspiracy, making false statements, securities fraud, tax fraud, and securities law violations, and...
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    Lou Pearlman (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    June 2007. He pled guilty to conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements during bankruptcy proceedings. In 2008, Pearlman was convicted...
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    Bernie Madoff (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    mail fraud, money laundering, making false statements, perjury, theft from an employee benefit plan, and making false filings with the SEC. The plea...
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    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...
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    essay by columnist Bari Weiss. Weinstein has been criticized for making false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, and for spreading misinformation...
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    Andrew Gillum (category All articles with unsourced statements)
    top advisors. The jury found Gillum not guilty on the charge of making false statements and was hung on the remaining counts. In May 2023, federal prosecutors...
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    Michael Cohen (lawyer) (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    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...
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    Charles M. Lieber (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    Lieber was convicted of six felonies, including two counts of making false statements to the FBI and investigators from the Department of Defense and...
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    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...
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    the Espionage Act. The other eight charges against him included making false statements and engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. The most serious...
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    structuring bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements and making false statements to federal investigators. Federal prosecutors said that the funds...
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  • Cope, Charles W. (February 2015). "United States Held Liable for Making False Statements to Foreign Tax Authority". copetax.com. Retrieved May 27, 2015...
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  • Victor Barker (category People convicted of making false statements)
    Holloway. Barker was ultimately charged with, and convicted of, making a false statement on a marriage certificate. The judge, Sir Ernest Wild, the Recorder...
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    Swiss president Alain Berset for allegedly abusing his office and making false statements on Swiss television regarding COVID-19. The case was dismissed...
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    Robert Toussie – Brooklyn real estate developer, convicted of making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2001;...
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  • Perjury (redirect from False swearer)
    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...
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  • States constitutional law, false statements of fact are assertions, which are ostensibly facts, that are false. Such statements are not always protected...
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    Jeffrey Skilling (category American people convicted of 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...
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    Kodak Black (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    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...
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  • Isaac Toussie (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    Robert Toussie, in 1993. In 1999, Isaac Toussie was charged with making false statements to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in obtaining...
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    rather than making an unintentional mistake. A number of governments use regulations or other laws and methods to limit false advertising. False advertising...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Colleen LaRose (category American people convicted of making false statements)
    support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to the FBI, and attempted identity theft. Swedish authorities said...
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