18 U.S.C. § 495 — Contracts, deeds, and powers of attorney

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 147 words · no verdicts yet

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This section punishes making or changing false writings to obtain United States money, knowingly treating them as genuine to defraud the United States, or submitting them to support a claim against the United States. The maximum punishment is a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both.

A person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to 10 years, or both, if the person does any of the following: • falsely makes, changes, forges, or counterfeits a deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, or other writing to obtain or receive money from the United States or its officers or agents, or to help another person obtain or receive it directly or indirectly; • says or publishes such a false, forged, changed, or counterfeit writing as true, intending to defraud the United States and knowing it is false, changed, forged, or counterfeit; or • sends or presents such a writing at a United States office or to a United States officer in support of or concerning an account or claim, intending to defraud the United States and knowing it is false, changed, forged, or counterfeit.

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Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, or other writing, for the purpose of obtaining or receiving, or of enabling any other person, either directly or indirectly, to obtain or receive from the United States or any officers or agents thereof, any sum of money; or

Whoever utters or publishes as true any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited; or

Whoever transmits to, or presents at any office or officer of the United States, any such writing in support of, or in relation to, any account or claim, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 711; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 711
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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