18-U.S.C.-2073
§2073 – False Entries and Reports of Moneys Or Securities
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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 101 > Section 2073
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- Reference: Section 2073
- Legend: §2073 – False Entries and Reports of Moneys Or Securities
- USCode Year: 2013
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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.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §189 (Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 270, 36 Stat. 1355).
Words or any of its agencies were inserted after United States so as to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of section. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)
References to persons aiding and abetting were omitted. Such persons are principals under section 2 of this title.
Minor verbal changes were made.
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $5,000 in last par.
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