18 U.S.C. § 2073 — False entries and reports of moneys or securities
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 144 words · no verdicts yet
This section makes it a crime for certain federal personnel to make false account entries or false reports about money or securities with an intent to deceive, mislead, injure, or defraud. The punishment is a fine, up to ten years in prison, or both.
A United States or agency* officer, clerk, agent, or other employee whose duty is to keep accounts or records commits an offense if, intending to deceive, mislead, injure, or defraud, the person makes a false or fictitious entry or record about a matter related to the person’s duties. The same penalty applies to such a person whose duty is to receive, hold, or pay money or securities to, for, or on behalf of the United States, or to receive or hold money or securities in trust for someone, if the person, with the same intent, makes a false report about that money or those securities. The person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both.
Whoever, being an officer, clerk, agent, or other employee of the United States or any of its agencies, charged with the duty of keeping accounts or records of any kind, with intent to deceive, mislead, injure, or defraud, makes in any such account or record any false or fictitious entry or record of any matter relating to or connected with his duties; or
Whoever, being an officer, clerk, agent, or other employee of the United States or any of its agencies, charged with the duty of receiving, holding, or paying over moneys or securities to, for, or on behalf of the United States, or of receiving or holding in trust for any person any moneys or securities, with like intent, makes a false report of such moneys or securities—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 795
- 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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