18-U.S.C.-289
§289 – False Claims For Pensions
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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 15 > Section 289
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- Reference: Section 289
- Legend: §289 – False Claims For Pensions
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
Whoever knowingly and willfully makes, or presents any false, fictitious or fraudulent affidavit, declaration, certificate, voucher, endorsement, or paper or writing purporting to be such, concerning any claim for pension or payment thereof, or pertaining to any other matter within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or knowingly or willfully makes or presents any paper required as a voucher in drawing a pension, which paper bears a date subsequent to that upon which it was actually signed or acknowledged by the pensioner; or
Whoever knowingly and falsely certifies that the declarant, affiant, or witness named in such declaration, affidavit, voucher, endorsement, or other paper or writing personally appeared before him and was sworn thereto, or acknowledged the execution thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 699; Pub. L. 102–54, §13(f)(1), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 275; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on section 81 of title 18, section 126 of title 38, Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans’ Relief, and section 787 of title 43, Public Lands, all of U.S.C., 1940 ed. (R.S. §4746; July 7, 1898, ch. 578, 30 Stat. 718; Aug. 17, 1912, ch. 301, §1, 37 Stat. 312; July 3, 1930, ch. 863, §2, 46 Stat. 1016).
Reference to persons aiding or assisting or causing or procuring was omitted as unnecessary in view of definition of principal in section 2 of this title.
Words or bounty land, before prosecution of any claim for pension, were omitted as obsolete. (See revisers note under section 290 of this title.)
Upon authority of 1930 enactment words Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs were substituted for Commissioner of Pensions or of the Secretary of the Interior, which appeared in 1898 enactment.
The fine was changed from $500 for $10,000 to conform with punishment provision of section 287 of this title.
Minor changes in phraseology were also made.
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $10,000.
1991—Pub. L. 102–54 substituted Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs.
U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage
18-U.S.C.-247 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Criminal Law
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