18 U.S.C. § 1712 — Falsification of postal returns to increase compensation
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 170 words · no verdicts yet
A Postal Service officer or employee who falsifies records to increase compensation, or redirects properly mailable matter to increase office compensation, faces a fine, up to two years in prison, or both.
A Postal Service* officer or employee who, to fraudulently increase the employee’s, a postmaster’s, or another post-office employee’s compensation, makes a false return, statement, or account to a United States officer, or makes a false required record entry about postal operations, may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to two years, or both. The same punishment applies to an officer or employee at a post office or station who, to increase the office’s compensation, induces or tries to induce someone to deposit mail at, or send it for mailing through, that office while knowing it could properly be mailed at another post office.
Whoever, being a Postal Service* officer or employee, makes a false return, statement, or account to any officer of the United States, or makes a false entry in any record, book, or account, required by law or the rules or regulations of the Postal Service to be kept in respect of the business or operations of any post office or other branch of the Postal Service, for the purpose of fraudulently increasing his compensation or the compensation of the postmaster or any employee in a post office; or
Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee in any post office or station thereof, for the purpose of increasing the emoluments or compensation of his office, induces, or attempts to induce, any person to deposit mail matter in, or forward in any manner for mailing at, the office where such officer or employee is employed, knowing such matter to be properly mailable at another post office—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 780; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(22), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 779; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 780
- 1970Amended · Pub. L. 91-375 · 84 Stat. 779
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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