They charged Michael Flynn with one false statement --one false statement.
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His lawyer Jay Sikulow subsequently make the false statement that Trump had no role in dictating that false statement.
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Wolfe pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to the FBI about his contact with journalists; two other false statement charges were dropped.
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For a false statement charge, the government must show the defendant willingly signed a return under penalties of perjury, making a materially false statement that he knew was false.
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Probably the most relevant federal statute is the false statement statute, which prohibits knowingly making a false statement about a matter material to an investigation by a federal agency.
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Gilbert says it proves she knowingly made a false statement.
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"Making a false statement to Congress is a felony," Sen.
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Of those tweets, 83 percent did not refute the false statement.
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Last year, Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and false statement charges.
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I never made a false statement to anyone at any time.
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This is a false statement, easily disproven by reading the report.
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The false statement statute has proved a powerful tool for prosecutors.
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"A false statement made with intent to deceive," Ms. Kelly said.
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The charge against Flynn for a single false statement to federal investigators was highly dubious from the start; he pleaded guilty to a single false statement about a meeting with Russian diplomats during the Trump presidential transition.
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During an impromptu press gaggle on Friday, Trump said, "Manafort has nothing to do with our campaign," before clarifying his false statement with another false statement, that Manafort had only worked for the campaign for 49 days.
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The information accuses Gates of making the false statement on Feb. 1.
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Prosecutors would need to find something egregious like a knowingly false statement.
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In science, the declaration of a false statement would end your career.
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Sadly, it isn't the only false statement she has tried to push.
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He has been charged with providing a false statement, among other charges.
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He later said he had been tortured to give a false statement.
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Flynn pleaded guilty two years ago to a felony false statement charge.
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Her false statement came to light as part of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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However, he pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and false statement charges in February.
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Last year, Cathcart pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false statement.
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Gianforte's office compounded the offense by issuing a false statement about what happened.
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And the "materiality" requirement means the false statement has to actually matter -- i.e.
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"A false statement to the government doesn't happen in a vacuum," she said.
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Papadopoulos has also pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI.
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Instead, he's being charged with making a false statement to a federal agent.
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Some of those charges, particularly Flynn's alleged false statement, were marginal at best.
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He's up for felony murder, providing a false statement, and tampering with evidence.
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The jury on Wednesday, though, acquitted Craig of a felony false-statement charge.
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Gates made the false statement during a meeting with Mueller's team on Feb.
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The press secretary's comments came in defense of Kelly's false statement that Rep.
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All three were charged with federal conspiracy, marriage fraud and false statement charges.
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A false statement can be a lie, or an attempt to cover something up.
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According to researchers, the attorney's false statement either amounts to perjury or gross incompetence.
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Now, Dabate is charged with murder, tampering with evidence, and providing a false statement.
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Love-Robinson pleaded guilty in March to providing a false statement to obtain credit.
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However, he reportedly denied discussing sanctions and pleaded guilty to making a false statement.
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"Fortunately last night, a story broke that made that a false statement," Isakson said.
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The FARA charge alleges another kind of false statement on Manafort and Gates's part.
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But none of the false statement charges accuse Mr. Wolfe of leaking classified information.
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The 2016 charges related to Manafort allegedly making false statement to the Justice Department.
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" -- December 2500 campaign rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania "The whistleblower wrote a totally false statement.
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To say that they don't work with the Chinese government is a false statement.
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"Failure of memory is not akin to a false statement," Mr. Manafort's lawyers said.
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Each potential false statement charge could have carried up to five years in prison.
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Failure to report such a loan could be considered to be a false statement.
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"That is potentially a crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, making a false statement," Eisen alleges.
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And because she just was seen as refusing to account for her previous false statement.
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Making a false statement is a felony that carries up to five years in prison.
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PIRRO: You know, Larry, 18-USC, a thousand one, making a false statement to Congress.
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"With regards to your false statement you submitted to Congress," Meadows said at one point.
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Gates pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statement to special counsel lawyers.
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Making a false statement on a firearm form carries an additional maximum of five years.
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However, even more problematic are agreements requiring a potential plaintiff to make a false statement.
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Simply making a false statement to Congress isn't enough to make you guilty of perjury.
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Criminal investigators could use another provision of federal law, the false statement statute, Section 1001.
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He pleaded guilty last month to filing a false statement on a bank loan application.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines a "lie" as a "false statement made with intent to deceive".
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But on Friday, Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and false statement charges in US district court.
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Gerardi was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and making a false statement.
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This, according to Vladeck, would constitute lying to federal investigators by making a "materially false" statement.
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He is being charged with conspiracy, making a false statement and two counts of falsifying records.
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Like slander, libel refers to making a false statement that is harmful to a person's reputation.
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We&aposre not -- HANNITY: Anybody watching you right now knows that that&aposs a false statement.
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Both doctors also face one count each of making a false statement to a federal officer.
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He is charged with murder, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and providing a false statement.
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And, under state statute, prosecutors have to show that the caller knowingly made a false statement.
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Witnesses testify under oath and knowingly making a material false statement could result in perjury charges.
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The Broun employee in question, Brett O'Donnell, pleaded guilty in 2015 to a false-statement charge.
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He ultimately pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI and is awaiting sentencing.
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The president was later involved in preparing a false statement about the purpose of the meeting.
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False statement charges (present in this indictment) and obstruction of justice charges will likely figure prominently.
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Li, now 30, had pleaded guilty in December to securities fraud and making a false statement.
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Parnas was very upset by President Trump's plainly false statement that he did not know him.
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The indictment charges him with conspiracy, false statement and 2 counts of false entry in record.
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False statement #3: Cohen did not recall any Russian government response or contact about the Moscow Project.
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Congress typically refers a possible case of perjury or making a false statement to the Justice Department.
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Wrong. George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single charge of making a false statement to the FBI.
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The report does, however, indicate that Cohen shared his prepared false statement to Congress with Trump's lawyers.
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Add an alleged false statement charge to the mix, and you have a hat trick of felonies.
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Police have charged him with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, providing a false statement and murder.
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Mueller prosecuted General Flynn for a false statement when the FBI thought he was telling the truth.
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However, the five false statement counts against Stone only refer to the testimony Stone gave on Sept.
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Making a false statement regarding firearms carries a potential maximum sentence of up to five years' imprisonment.
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He was central to the alleged false statement put out by the White House on the firing.
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The filing was crafted narrowly to focus on his false statement and the meeting with the Russians.
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"The legislature's clear intent cannot be discerned," Jackson wrote in her opinion dismissing the false statement charge.
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Cipollone would deliberately make a false statement," but he said, "I will tell you this: He's mistaken.
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United States, overturning a conviction for unlawfully procuring citizenship by making a false statement on an application.
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Gates last month was sentenced to 45 days in jail for conspiracy and making a false statement.
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Gates has added another false statement conviction, which is a crime that is ubiquitous in Washington scandals.
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Facing dozens of counts, Gates pleaded to a generic false statement count and a single fraud count.
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Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of Sacramento is charged with making a false statement involving international terrorism.
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She also is charged with making a false statement to a federal officer, which would mean additional sentencing.
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Kershner also faces a charge of making a false statement under oath in Adams county, Nebraska TV reports.
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The House would be remiss if it does not at least investigate Gianforte's assault and his false statement.
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Trump made the false statement during a campaign rally Tuesday night while calling for stronger voter ID laws.
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But a person only breaks the law if a prosecutor can show they "knowingly" made a false statement.
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Those include allegations Manafort lied to the Justice Department and caused someone else to make a false statement.
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Any false statement, or even a failure to disclose relevant information, could be enough to show a violation.
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And a smaller-scale victory for thespecial counsel : A Dutch lawyer pleaded guilty to making a false statement.
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If he doesn't that is a problem, because then he would be making at minimum a false statement.
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But "Manafort's role in the Trump campaign, however, is relevant to the false-statement offenses," Mueller's prosecutors added.
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Craig was charged with making a false statement to the Justice Department in describing and hiding that effort.
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The president's tweet about Ms. Waters contained a false statement, an insult and what sounds like a threat.
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Lawson pleaded guilty to 13 counts of making a false statement to purchase a gun, 13 counts of transferring a firearm to a felon, five counts of transferring a silencer device to a person not allowed to have one and five counts of making a false statement to obtain a silencer.
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"If there were others that were participating in that act of obstruction of justice, if there were others that were knowing of that false statement, participated in the drafting of that false statement, we need to know about it and we need to expose it," Schiff told reporters last week.
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Olsen faces two counts of felony murder, aggravated assault, violation of oath of office and making a false statement.
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In addition to murder, he is charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and providing a false statement.
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Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of Sacramento, California, was charged with making a false statement involving international terrorism.
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In fact, the form warns that "a knowing and willful false statement" can be punished by fine or imprisonment.
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He also denied lobbying Kislyak about a United Nations Security Council vote on Israeli settlements policy — another false statement.
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Last October, two of Trump's former campaign aides were indicted, and a third pleaded guilty on false statement charges.
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Did anyone (Trump or Cohen, for example) make a false statement to a bank in connection with this payment?
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Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik pled guilty to felony tax and false statement charges in 2009.
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Two of his former campaign aides have been indicted, and a third has pleaded guilty on false statement charges.
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His lawyer says Parnas was, "very upset by President Trump's plainly false statement that he did not know him".
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What kind of a man drafts a false statement for his own son about a matter under criminal investigation?
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The Ohio auditor's office last month also charged Reader with making a false statement to the Ohio Ethics Commission.
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The Stone indictment dodges those issues in favor of a garden-variety obstruction, false statement and witness-tampering case.
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In October two of his former campaign aides were indicted, and a third pleaded guilty on false statement charges.
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Richard Dabate, Connie's spouse, has been charged with murder, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and providing a false statement.
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Even a false statement is historically important, as it may explain actions taken that would otherwise seem odd or inconsistent.
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There could be false statement prosecutions to either Congress or federal investigators, but that is hardly worthy of Watergate analogies.
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Libel, on the other hand, is the act of damaging a person's reputation with a written or published false statement.
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Manafort's associate, Rick Gates, earlier this year pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making a false statement.
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Her mother said on Tuesday that the woman had been coerced into giving a false statement to the local station.
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At the heart of it, it's very simple: It's a juxtaposition of the truth with the false statement or fact.
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Defamation, a false statement of fact that damages the reputation of someone else, can come in myriad forms of communication.
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George Papadopoulos, a former campaign foreign policy adviser has also pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI.
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It also referred to the false-statement statute as part of a certification that the information was truthful and complete.
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"The SEC needs to determine if Musk's first tweet was a false statement when he put it out," said Gorman.
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Court documents say Gates will plead guilty to two counts: making a false statement and conspiracy against the United States.
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Gates pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making a false statement.
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Cohen also said that Trump's personal attorneys, including Jay Sekulow, edited his initial, false statement to Congress on this matter.
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He reportedly helped his son Donald Trump Jr. draft a false statement about a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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"Anyone who spreads a false statement about 'Polish camps' harms the good name and interests of Poland," Tusk said on Twitter.
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Encinia was charged by a grand jury in January 2016 with making a false statement on his arrest report for Bland.
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If the government can't prove the person intended to lie, then the person can't be convicted of making a false statement.
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The second count, making a false statement, accuses Gates of lying to the special counsel's office and the FBI on Feb.
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To prove libel, a public figure must show a writer or publisher acted with actual malice in publishing a false statement.
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Flynn pleaded guilty last year, however, to a single count of making a false statement in conjunction with his Turkish work.
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She said Dassey's attorney, Len Kachinsky, pressured his client into pleading guilty after Dassey was coerced into making a false statement.
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Larry Inman (R-Traverse City) is charged with attempted extortion, soliciting a bribe and making a false statement to the FBI.
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Tucker was previously convicted of making a false statement to a bank and using the mail for a scheme to defraud.
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Immigration officials have said that's because Colotl admitted guilt to a 2011 charge of making a false statement to law enforcement.
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In March, a jury convicted Baca of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and making false statement to federal investigators.
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To win a defamation case, the plaintiff must show publication of a false statement of fact that damages the plaintiff's reputation.
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Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty for making a false statement to the FBI about contacts with people connected with the Russian government.
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He argued that making a false statement to a reporter is not a crime, but doing so to the FBI is.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the executive from COR Development who was found guilty of making a false statement.
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He's also investigated the false statement Trump helped Don Jr. draft last July in response to early reports about the meeting.
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If asked about the use of personal email in such a proceeding, a false statement is subject to penalty for perjury.
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Weaver alleged that Thomason made a false statement in the open-records request by asking for copies of "illegally cashed" checks.
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"The fact is Asghar Ali Khan is a totally inexperienced person and provided a false statement," the conservation authority's report said.
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And, at the heart of it, it's very simple; it's a juxtaposition of the truth with the false statement of fact.
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The jury, however, did find Olsen guilty of aggravated assault, making a false statement, and two counts of violation of oath.
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"I believe in God" is a false statement for me because it is voiced by my ego, which is compulsively skeptical.
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Lutsenko has admitted to lying to a conservative journalist, giving him a false statement that cast Yovanovitch in a negative light.
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" Rudy Giuliani, one of the president's personal attorneys, slammed the Stone indictment for being "nothing more than another false statement charge.
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This is yet another obviously false statement: Thousands of Germans — Jewish, Communist, LGBTQ+, Romani, people with disabilities, and others — were gassed.
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Baca, who reportedly has Alzheimer's, was found guilty in March of conspiracy and obstruction charges and making false statement to federal investigators.
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The board could also investigate and recommend discipline against an officer who makes a false statement in the course of an investigation.
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Inada apologized for the mistake, but opposition lawmakers say she should resign for making a false statement while in a parliament session.
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Manafort and Gates both pleaded not guilty to their charges, while Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI.
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A guilty plea by former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos for making a false statement to the FBI was also unsealed Monday.
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Cohen, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution.
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The definition of libel is straightforward: It's a written, published communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of the subject.
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Manafort's associate, former Trump campaign official Rick Gates, has pleaded guilty in that same case to conspiracy and making a false statement.
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The Police Department later dismissed the board's false-statement accusations against the men, according to Police Department records reviewed by The Times.
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Mr. Kushner also failed to disclose approximately 100 foreign contacts on his security clearance application; each omission is a potential false statement.
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Gates pleaded guilty in February 2018 to two criminal charges, for conspiring with Manafort and making a false statement to Mueller's team.
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Gates, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy and false statement charges brought by Mueller, said he overheard Trump talking with Stone.
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For instance, former national security adviser Michael Flynn holds a much greater claim to being unfairly prosecuted for a single false statement.
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Gates pleaded guilty earlier this year to reduced charges of conspiring against the U.S. and making a false statement to federal officials.
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"In El Paso, they have close to 2,000 murders right on the other side of the wall," Trump said, a false statement.
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The GOP lobbyist was also interviewed by the FBI, and Litman said that fact could form the basis for a false statement charge.
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While it is possible to argue that Trump simply misspoke here, he has made versions of this false statement more than once before.
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Brian Michael Rini, 23, was charged Friday with making a false statement or representation to a department or agency of the United States.
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The company pled guilty to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act, the obstruction of justice, and entry of goods by false statement.
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The ex-officer stands charged with two counts of felony murder, aggravated assault, violation of oath of office and making a false statement.
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After Ms Fontaine objected to what she considered a false statement in Mr March's report she says she was ostracised by her colleagues.
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In the United States, many federal crimes are also punishable by more than a year, including making a false statement to government agents.
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In his public testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week, Cohen was asked about his false statement by Rep.
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And, yes, that is going to require the debate moderators to interject with the truth when either candidate makes an obviously false statement.
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Gates pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and making a false statement to lawyers from the special counsel's office.
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However, Gates pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making a false statement.
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"I'm not saying Ross violated the criminal conflict of interest statute; I'm not saying that he intentionally made a false statement," she said.
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The second officer, James Cooney, was cited for a false statement for claiming that he did not notice any injuries at the scene.
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In addition, PolitiFact labeled Donald Trump's assertion that "Because of Obamacare, you have so many part-time jobs" a false statement last June.
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Correction notices effectively require websites to track those who post, look at and might be influenced by or attracted to a "false" statement.
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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is also serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to tax fraud and false-statement charges.
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Richard Ciccarella was sentenced on Friday to three years of probation for making a false statement to a federal officer, court documents said.
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Flynn had been set for sentencing last December on the single false-statement felony charge he pleaded guilty to almost two years ago.
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"At no time did Mr. Parnas make a knowingly false statement," Parnas' lawyer, Joseph Bondy, said in a filing in Manhattan federal court.
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Olsen was indicted on two counts of felony murder, aggravated assault, violating his oath of office and making a false statement, James said.
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Papadopoulos last year pleaded guilty to making a false statement in connection with former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling.
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Conway also suggested that Todd's insistence on asking why Spicer delivered a demonstrably false statement could affect the White House's treatment of the media.
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Defamation is a false statement of fact that lowers the reputation of a person in the community or deters others from associating with her.
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On Monday, Heard pleaded guilty in court to making a false statement on her immigration card about the Yorkshire terriers, but avoided a conviction.
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This week, House Democrats released a letter suggesting the former national security adviser made a false statement to investigators when renewing his security classification.
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In addition, PolitiFact labeled Donald Trump's assertion that, "Because of Obamacare, you have so many part-time jobs" as a false statement last June.
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The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Benjamin Glassman, charged Betts' friend, Ethan Kollie, 24, with making a false statement regarding firearms.
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This is a single count of making a false statement not a count of conspiracy or computer hacking or bribery connected to the Russians.
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George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI as part of the investigation.
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Gates pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal conspiracy and false-statement charges in that case, which signaled he would cooperate with Mueller's team.
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Third, there's the question about why President Trump dictated that false statement for his son about a meeting he supposedly didn't even know about.
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Corallo claims he informed Trump and Hicks that the false statement would backfire because documents showing the true purpose of the meeting would leak.
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SESSIONS: No. Technically, Sessions didn't repeat his earlier false statement here — he didn't deny all contact with Russians, just contact regarding the 2016 election.
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"Anyone who spreads a false statement about 'Polish camps' harms the good name and interests of Poland," Tusk said on his private Twitter account.
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Gates himself was sentenced by Jackson on Tuesday to 45 days in jail and three years' probation for conspiracy and making a false statement.
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Along with the conspiracy counts, Farah and Daud are charged with perjury, and Farah with making a false statement to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
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But if Penn did get into trouble with law enforcement, it could come down to an unexpected charge — a false statement to a federal official.
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Anyone who made a false statement to federal investigators about the meeting, including a material omission on government personnel paperwork, could be in serious jeopardy.
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Mueller was also investigating Cohen for false bank entries, false statement to a financial institution, bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, the documents show.
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Stan's daughter says she believes Herman, who she claims was fired in early 2018, made the false statement because he was seeking revenge against her.
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Cohen, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to eight charges, including five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution.
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Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser, has since pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI and is cooperating with the Mueller probe.
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A more interesting question is suggested by the nature of the false statement that federal prosecutors outline in the document filed in federal court Friday.
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Manafort's co-defendant and former business associate, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy against the United States and to making a false statement.
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On June 22, Lieutenant Peabody was charged with animal cruelty in Inca's death and with providing a false statement about Dale's death, the marshals said.
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In February, Gates pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making a false statement to the FBI.
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Schiff's panel is also examining whether attorneys working for Trump's family obstructed the congressional investigation into Russian interference by shaping or editing Cohen's false statement.
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Randall is imprisoned in the Bastille because she has given a sworn (and false) statement that he was the one who attacked her and Mary.
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The government argued it only matters that she made a false statement, not whether it had any impact on its decision to grant refugee status.
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Of the 81 cases in which a civilian review board found an officer had lied, the Police Department pursued "false statement" charges in only two.
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Detective Dimitrakakis currently faces the prospect of an internal police trial on charges of making a false statement, according to paperwork relating to his case.
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While bad, none of the alleged acts by the Trump Foundation, combined with false statement on a return, would necessarily result in criminal tax implications.
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This policy is getting an early test with a Trump campaign ad that CNN and others have said makes a false statement about Joe Biden.
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Luke" Gottwald assaulted Katy Perry was defamatory, that "publication of a false statement to even one person, here Lady Gaga, is sufficient to impose liability.
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William Bynum Jr. is accused of procuring services of a prostitute, false statement of identity and simple possession of marijuana, the Clinton Police Department said.
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Mueller could not find a single crime by George Papadopoulos other than a marginal false statement that led to a whole 12 days in jail.
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He was charged with one count of making a false statement to a federal officer, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
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To prove libel, she would have to show that a false statement was made with either reckless or purposeful disregard for the truth, Overing said.
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In July, about two months after his arrest, Ciccarella pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a federal agent during the child pornography investigation.
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The ex-assistant, who's suing as Jane Doe, says she agreed to make a false statement defending Caruso against a legal threat from another assistant.
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The warrant says Peterson made a knowingly false statement to investigators by saying he only heard two or three shots when he arrived at the building.
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In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Spitz says defamation claims must be based on a "provably false statement of fact," and insists his statements are not.
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In California, Al-Jayab was arrested on Thursday on a federal charge of making a false statement involving international terrorism, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Dukes, 34, has pleaded not guilty to single counts of making a false statement, hindering the apprehension of a criminal and concealing the death of another.
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The false statement count stems from an allegation that Olsen falsely told a fellow officer the victim physically assaulted him before the shooting, the statement said.
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VW pleaded guilty to three felonies: conspiracy to commit fraud and violate the Clean Air Act, obstruction of justice and entry of goods by false statement.
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Congress rejected a proposal to require documented proof as well, finding that the threat of criminal prosecution for a false statement was enough to deter fraud.
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It is a solemn, personal oath, and courts have ruled that it is unconstitutional for the state to compel such a false statement of political conscience.
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Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts total, including five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution.
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According to the DOJ statement, the maximum penalty for each count of making a false statement to federal law enforcement stands at five years in prison.
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There are concerns among some of Trump's allies that the president would be at risk of making a false statement to investigators in a freewheeling conversation.
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"Thus, we repeat that any publications implying that Mr. Deripaska directly or indirectly communicated with Mr. Manafort in 2016 would be a false statement of fact."
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Once they do that, then they will take that complaint, and they will always add a false statement on that complaint, which is a termination offense.
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Absent a smoking-gun discovery of an effort by Swetnick to mislead, it is difficult to see how a false-statement case could be successfully mounted.
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"The act was conducted against her will and she has no motive for making a false statement," presiding judge Akihiro Suzuki said in a court judgment.
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What also is striking is that McCabe has used the same defense as Michael Flynn, who took a plea for a single false statement to investigators.
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That foreign-agent probe also led to a failed false-statement prosecution earlier this year against former Skadden lawyer and Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig.
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He now faces a prison stint after pleading guilty to a single false statement about a meeting with Russian diplomats during the Trump presidential transition period.
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Thus, we repeat that any publications implying that Mr. Deripaska directly or indirectly communicated with Mr. Manafort in 22017 would be a false statement of fact.
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The case arises from the a false statement to Congress in 2017 by Trump's now jailed former personal attorney Michael Cohen, according to letters obtained by CNN.
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Peterson, the arrest warrant alleges, made a knowingly false statement to investigators by saying he heard only two or three shots when he arrived at the building.
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False statement #2: Cohen never agreed to travel to Russia in connection with the Moscow Project and "never considered" asking President Trump to travel for the project.
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Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado, also known as "Tony Hernández," was arrested in Miami last year on charges of trafficking cocaine, weapons offenses and making a false statement.
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Lorenzo appealed to the Supreme Court, saying that under the appeals court's ruling a person who did not make a false statement could still be held liable.
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Joshua Kissoon, who was in charge of Siddiqui&aposs battalion, is accused of failure to obey a lawful general order, making a false statement and other charges.
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Sullivan, the court bestowed special status to public officials like the commissioner: Defamation would require "actual malice," a knowingly false statement in "reckless disregard" of the truth.
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In the end, 4 charges were dropped -- including knowingly making a false statement to obtain a hunting license, hunting out of season and unlawfully possessing dead wildlife.
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Cohen also alleged in public testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday that Trump's attorneys reviewed and edited his original false statement to Congress.
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And Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty for making a false statement to the FBI over contacts with officials connected to the Russian government.
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Additionally, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty for making a false statement to the FBI over contacts with officials connected to the Russian government.
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According to court documents, Cohen pleaded guilty to making a false statement about the effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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That presents the maximum exposure for the type of false statement charges that Mueller has used against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and other Trump associates.
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"If you intentionally make a false statement as a police officer, as opposed to a mistake, you can and will be terminated for that," Mr. Byrne said.
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One officer, Thomas Mikalinis, was cited for a false statement after claiming that the arresting officer had punched the suspect, according to a summary of the case.
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If he was one of those officials Mr. Flynn spoke to and he was not honest about it when questioned, he could face similar false statement charges.
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Corallo reportedly told colleagues that he informed Trump and Hicks that the false statement would backfire because documents showing the true purpose of the meeting would leak.
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In Nevada, defamation can be claimed when a defendant negligently or recklessly "publishes" a false statement about an individual, and such publication leads to a damaged reputation.
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Although "publication" is not limited to written publication, the scenario at hand doesn't appear to suggest any specific false statement was made that subsequently damaged Meek's reputation.
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In the ruling, Jackson, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, rejected the defense's arguments to throw out the plain-vanilla false-statement charge that Craig faces.
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Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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In August, prosecutors used Gates' testimony to support a false-statement charge against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig about his lobbying work related to Ukraine.
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Gates himself was sentenced by Jackson in December to 45 days in jail and three years' probation for conspiracy and making a false statement to federal investigators.
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The false statement law covers not only outright lies, but also submissions in which a person "falsifies, conceals, or covers up" information submitted to a federal agency.
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"It is unfortunate that someone can make a false statement and do so anonymously and it holds credibility but that is the world we live in," Latson wrote.
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"Rear Admiral Gilbeau did in fact make a false statement during the course of an important investigation," Benowitz said in a written statement provided to CNN Wednesday evening.
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And as if that weren't enough, in a press conference with the Italian president shortly after, Trump continued his factually challenged Syria rant with yet another false statement.
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After the fight, one of the officers got Mr. Thorton to sign a false statement saying he suffered his injuries during a fall in the shower, records show.
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She has been charged with female genital mutilation, transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and conspiracy, and making a false statement to a federal officer.
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Federal prosecutors charged 21 brokers with felony charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud, making a false statement, and conspiracy to harbor aliens for profit and other offenses.
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In fact, after initial denials, Trump's lawyers eventually admitted the president dictated his eldest son Don Jr's false statement regarding the nature of the infamous Trump Tower meeting.
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C.] and that this motivated him to make the False Statement, knowing and intending the False Statement's publication in the Podcast would injure, embarrass and otherwise harm [J.
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Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty for making a false statement to the FBI about contacts with people connected with the Russian government.
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Papadopoulos pleaded guilty last month to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with a foreign contact close to the Russian government.
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It was also revealed that George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to Trump, had pleaded guilty earlier this month to making a false statement to the FBI.
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Herbert Sudfeld, 64, was convicted on charges of securities fraud and making a false statement by a federal jury in Philadelphia following a four-day trial, prosecutors said.
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The judge said that the evidence about the other women's claims was not needed to show that Mr. Trump had knowingly made a false statement about Ms. Zervos.
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That false statement in her confession called into question the rest of what she told law enforcement over more than 11 hours of questioning without a lawyer present.
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A man claiming he was "Hernan Sanchez" was charged with making a false statement in a passport application, but records suggested he had used at least six identities.
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Withdrawing the plea would void Flynn's plea bargain with prosecutors and expose him to the possibility of charges beyond the single false-statement felony count he admitted to.
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The government argued that any false statement in seeking citizenship can result in a violation, regardless of whether the response contributed to the decision to approve the application.
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The city also wants Smollett to pay $1,000 for each "false statement" he made to police and cover attorneys' fees and other litigation costs, according to the document.
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The Justice Department said Zhang was carrying two Chinese passports, and prosecutors have charged her with making a false statement to a federal officer and entering restricted property.
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From this contradiction, the number of apparently true statements "explodes" — anything can be inferred as true — through an endless chain of falsehoods emanating from that one false statement.
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As we reported, Kodak was arrested at Rolling Loud earlier this month where officers had warrants for his arrest after he'd been indicted on the false statement charges.
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Under tax laws, attempts to evade or defeat a tax or make false statement on any document filed with the Internal Revenue Service can result in criminal charges.
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"He's laying out the basis for several tax fraud violations, including filing a false statement, supplying false information to the tax authorities and possibly tax evasion," Levin said.
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The next day, Gates pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, and Mueller filed a new indictment against Manafort alone with charges of money laundering and false statement.
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Tucker, who competes on U.S. and European racing circuits, was previously convicted of making a false statement to a bank and using the mail for a scheme to defraud.
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The false statement counts allege he and others faked 23 forms certifying purchases of about 9,100 tons of M6; the wire fraud charges involve six emails sending those forms.
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Ms. Liu's office struck an agreement in which Mr. Wolfe pleaded guilty to one charge of making a false statement; two other charges of the same offense were dropped.
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The intent of this allegedly false statement was to "hinder, delay and prevent the communication to a federal enforcement officer and federal judge of truthful information," the indictment says.
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" Another charging document accuses a woman of "knowingly make a false statement and claiming that she was a citizen of the United States in order to register to vote.
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It's a false statement of fact about the victim's presence, so they could theoretically get a judgment against the perpetrator that orders the removal of the video or images.
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First, there was Michael Cohen's false statement to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow deal — which minimized the seriousness of the project, misrepresented its timeline, and downplayed Trump's involvement.
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Mariya Chernykh, Tatiana Farook and Syed Raheel Farook were arrested on federal conspiracy, marriage fraud and false statement charges, a Department of Justice press release obtained by PEOPLE states.
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He denied he had made a false statement, arguing he did not review his emails and other documents before his questioning and then amended his testimony after doing so.
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Safavian, also caught up in the Abramoff scandal, was convicted of obstruction of justice and making a false statement and served a year in federal prison a decade ago.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, and one count of making an unlawful corporate contribution.
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Corsi said he got the drafts, mostly dated this month, as part of his negotiations with Mueller's team regarding a plea of making a false statement to federal investigators.
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Corsi said he received the drafts, mostly dated this month, as part of his negotiations with Mueller's team regarding a plea of making a false statement to federal investigators.
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The charges of obstructing an official proceeding carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and making a false statement to the FBI carries five years in prison.
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"It is a false statement, I just made it up,'" she said of her claim that she removed 77 bullets from victims of the Pulse massacre, the documents said.
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During this time, there were dozens of additional false-statement cases — possibly more than 70 — that were referred to the Police Department but whose outcome the board never learned.
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The special counsel assigned Mr. Cohen's claims on the false statement at least some credibility in his 448-page report, but he appeared to pass on examining them fully.
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Even in Nixon's false statement, one reads at least a rhetorical respect for American institutions and history, even if that respect did not exist in fact or in full.
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To strengthen the case, prosecutors included false-statement charges against the three defendants, accusing them of lying to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who interviewed them about the trading.
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The doctored 2015 DMI P&L submitted to Lender D was the same false statement previously submitted to Lender C, which overstated DMI's income by more than $4 million.
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Prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida charged her Monday with one count of making a false statement to a federal officer and one count of entering restricted property.
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The company admitted to three charges: conspiring to export American-made items to Iran without a license from the U.S. government, obstructing justice, and making a material false statement.
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Moreover, prosecutors may have felt that they had provable crimes against Flynn or his son, Michael Flynn Jr., making the false statement charge merely a convenient charge for cooperation.
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"First, as the gentleman knows, that's a false statement," Schiff shot back, noting that he too was unaware of the whistleblower's identity and would work to keep it protected.
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That seems extremely unlikely given the timing of his announcement, and Pod Save America's Jon Favreau tweeted that it was in fact a false statement on Trump's part shortly thereafter.
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Put another way, if Trump pardoned Michael Flynn for false statements to the FBI, Flynn could not assert false statement liability to justify pleading the Fifth in front of Congress.
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Video Boyd emphasized that Flynn "admitted under oath to making a materially false statement" and was represented by two experienced attorneys when he pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents.
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That's the scheduled sentencing date for former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty more than two years during the Mueller probe to a felony false statement charge.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is among those who have been indicted and is facing a range of charges from money laundering to making false statement to federal investigators.
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Shannon, let&aposs get back to the fact that the Trump team completely lied about the Trump Tower meeting, description that the president gave when he dictated a false statement.
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So let's say that a blogger writes an article about a private citizen accusing that person of a crime, based on a false statement by a witness, without following up.
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If this were to occur, the person making the false statement could be charged with a violation of Section 1001 or with aiding and abetting a violation of the statute.
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He is charged with two counts of making a false statement in relation to the purchase of the rifles, and one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
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When the underlying illegal act is a false statement, the justices said a jury must decide whether the false statements altered the naturalization process and influenced the immigration official's decision.
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Mr. Olsen, 57, was acquitted by a jury of murder but was found guilty on charges including aggravated assault, violating the oath of his office and making a false statement.
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But Jackson asked whether the agent who had signed the affidavit had made a false statement of their own accord, and requested that Buschel point her to such an instance.
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They also indicated that Cohen was in touch with White House staff and Trump's lawyers while he prepared a written false statement to Congress, for which he was criminally charged.
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He is scheduled to then stand trial in September before Jackson in Washington on charges that include conspiracy, money laundering, acting as an unregistered agent and making a false statement.
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And when White House press secretary Sean Spicer explained Trump's decision Monday during his first daily press briefing, he made a false statement about what the gag rule actually does.
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So while the board has been able to learn the outcome of the 22014 cases, there are dozens of other false-statement cases whose results the board does not know.
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Though initially charged with dozens of financial crimes alongside Manafort in October 2017, Gates pleaded guilty to two counts in Mueller's investigation, conspiracy and making a false statement to investigators.
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He faces three counts of making false statement to F.B.I. agents, by denying that he had spoken to four reporters, including Ali Watkins, a reporter for The New York Times.
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Under a provision of the federal securities law, any person or company that "willfully and knowingly" makes a false statement in any report filed with the S.E.C. can be prosecuted.
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However, his ultimate sentence is in the hands of the judge, and the false-statement charge carries a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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In the process, she made a false statement about her husband, saying she and her family had also feared retribution because he had avoided conscription by the Bosnian Serb military.
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They included arranging hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, tax evasion, making a false statement to a bank and lying to Congress.
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" And to the argument that a lack of diversity is caused by a lack of talented applicants, Ryan has an easy answer: "Without a doubt we believe that's a false statement.
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Court documents unsealed Monday revealed that Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in early October to making false statement to FBI investigators about his contacts with foreigners claiming to have high-level Russian connections.
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They believe a key part of the indictment that alleges Craig gave a false statement by omitting information in an interview with authorities has already been overturned by the appeals court.
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Tucker, who has competed on U.S. and European racing circuits, was previously convicted of making a false statement to obtain a bank loan and of running a fraudulent financial services business.
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Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia Democrats already are facing pressure to take action if Cohen made a false statement during his testimony.
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As part of a deal with the Justice Department, Gates pleaded guilty earlier this year to reduced charges of conspiring against the U.S. and making a false statement to federal officials.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges, including five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to a bank, and two counts related to violating campaign-finance laws.
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The move comes days after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal counts total, including five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution.
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He then doubled down on the false statement, which he tweeted out to his followers, with audio from a robocall Handel made on Gray's behalf in a previous city council race.
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As to what ever happened to the "Pakistani gentleman:" His name is Imran Awan and he pleaded guilty earlier this month to making a false statement on a bank loan application.
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But a statement issued by Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis appears to contradict his testimony, raising questions about whether Cohen made another false statement to Congress, and if he did so knowingly.
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Mr. Meek, 21, faces a maximum of eight years in prison for the two charges: misprision of a felony, which means concealing knowledge of a crime, and making a false statement.
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" Whether he would make a false statement if asked by Trump: "If it was demonstratively false, No. I would explain to the President that this is why it doesn't make sense.
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His close associate Rick Gates, who was charged in the same federal case by the special counsel, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making a false statement.
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In case after case, the Police Department reaches the same finding: There is not enough evidence to determine whether the police officer made a false statement, The New York Times found.
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Grand jurors accused him of making a false statement when he claimed that his purpose in ordering Ms. Bland out of her car was to more safely conduct a traffic investigation.
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"If the amount is not timely paid, the Department of Law may prosecute you for making a false statement to the city" under city ordinances, Siskel warned Smollett in the letter.
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And in a meeting with prosecutors, Mr. Dowd said nearly as much, Mr. Woodward reported, telling Mr. Mueller that the president would most likely provide a false statement in an interview.
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Local news reports found that Officer Amiott resigned from the police department in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb close to Euclid, in 2014, after making a false statement in a police report.
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He has never been found to have made a single false statement or falsely arrested anyone by either the Department, the (Civilian Complaint Review Board), any Civil Court or District Attorney.
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Investigators are scrutinizing whether several of Mr. Flynn's statements violated a statute that makes it a felony, punishable by five years in prison, to make a false statement to the government.
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Charlie Jinan Chen, 48, was accused in an indictment filed in federal court in Boston of committing securities fraud and of making a false statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Later indictments involving lawyer Alex van der Zwaan and internet operator Richard Pinedo involved a false statement and a single count of identity fraud, again unrelated to Trump or his campaign.
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Prosecutors used that law against General Motors for the failure of ignition switches in certain models that caused a number of deaths, along with a charge under the false statement law.
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If they lie and get caught, they'll be looking at jail time: Each false statement carries a penalty of up to five years in prison, and those can add up quickly.
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George Papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI about his foreign contacts with several top Russian officials.
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After Trump's April tweet, Daniels sued, arguing that Trump had posted a false statement against her that was defamatory because it suggested she was falsely accusing a man of committing a crime.
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Liu was charged with making a false statement in a police report, a felony, and two misdemeanor counts of obstructing or delaying a police officer, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced.
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A jury in DeKalb County found Robert "Chip" Olsen guilty of aggravated assault, making a false statement, and two counts of violation of oath, but acquitted him on two felony murder charges.
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Gilbeau's attorney, David Benowitz, stressed that the admiral was admitting to making a false statement to investigators -- not to the underlying charges of bribery that are at the heart of the scandal.
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Herbert Sudfeld, 64, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe in Philadelphia after a federal jury in February found him guilty on charges of securities fraud and making a false statement.
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Gates, a former Trump campaign adviser, pleaded guilty in February as part of plea deal with Mueller on charges of conspiracy against the U.S. and making a false statement to the FBI.
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Flynn did not implicate Trump in any crime related to collusion, and Flynn was charged with a single count of a false statement that is likely to result in little jail time.
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The most-believed false statement tested, according to the Post and its poll, was that there are more people in prison for selling or possessing marijuana than for all violent crimes (46%).
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Cohen pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday afternoon to eight counts total, including five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution.
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Isakson said the report, which involves allegations against Jackson made by Vice President Pence's physician, showed that Trump made a "false statement" when he said the allegations against Jackson were off-base.
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Should these statements prove to be differing, and we do not concede that they are, Mr. Clem could be subject to a state prosecution for perjury or a federal false statement prosecution.
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Mr. Flynn has since pleaded guilty of making a false statement to the F.B.I. and is cooperating with Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
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But because of her public role, the anecdote involving her false statement loomed large in the broader portrait by the special counsel of a White House defined by a culture of dishonesty.
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Mr. Cohen delivered a false statement to the Intelligence Committee in August 2017, when he said that the Trump Organization had stopped pursuing the Moscow project five months before it actually had.
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On Thursday he appeared at London's Southwark Crown Court and pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation and one count of making a false statement to obtain a passport.
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In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop two other false-statement charges and to recommend a low offense level under which federal sentencing guidelines would call for zero to six months in prison.
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The government could anchor a tax evasion and false statement case upon the multiple instances of self-dealing, as cataloged by the New York attorney general, between Mr. Trump and the foundation.
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Gates has since pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of making a false statement to the FBI, while Manafort is fighting additional charges brought by Mueller in February.
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Before joining the Euclid force, he had to resign from a neighboring police department after making a false statement in a police report, according to a Mentor Police Department internal investigation report.
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Former Trump campaign aide Richard Gates last week pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal with Mueller on conspiracy charges against the U.S. and making a false statement to the FBI.
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Washington (CNN)Greg Craig, a top lawyer in the Obama administration, was acquitted by a federal jury in Washington on Wednesday afternoon of allegedly making a false statement to the Justice Department.
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Additionally, the checks are evidence that Mr. Trump knowingly made a false statement when he failed to report his liability to Mr. Cohen on his personal financial disclosure form in June 2017.
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" Remember, this is a President who, when confronted with a false statement he made about the size of his margin of victory in the election, responded "Well, that's just what I was told.
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U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade in Dallas accepted the company's plea to three charges: conspiring to export American-made items to Iran without a license, obstructing justice, and making a material false statement.
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If it feels like Zuckerberg is bending the truth, know that making a false statement to Congress might be difficult to prove given the slippery nature of congressional testimony, but it's still illegal.
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Felix also faces three counts of maltreatment toward Siddiqui and the two other Muslim recruits, as well as nine counts of violating an order, making a false statement and being drunk and disorderly.
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Back in December, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for one count of making a false statement to Congress, eight felony counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations.
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One would think that lying to the vice president-elect so he'd then go out and give a false statement in public — if that is indeed what happened — would be a fireable offense.
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Almost a third of Americans (2202 percent) say "the news media [are] the enemy of the people," offering support for a false statement often voiced by the president as his opinion (The Hill).
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While traveling on Air Force One, the president helped craft a false statement asserting that the June 9 meeting between a Russian attorney, his son and others concerned the adoption of Russian children.
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As an attorney, Sekulow has an ethical obligation not to "make a false statement of material fact" to anyone in the course of representing a client, pursuant to Rule of Professional Conduct 4.1.
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Last December, Flynn admitted to also lying to FBI agents about his contacts with Kislyak, pleading guilty to a single false statement charge as part of a deal to cooperate in Mueller's probe.
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Snowden has said that his "breaking point" was Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's false statement to Congress in March 2013 that the intelligence community was not collecting millions of records on Americans.
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A jury last month acquitted Olsen of murder in the March 2015 death of Hill but found him guilty of aggravated assault, making a false statement and two counts of violation of oath.
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A prosecutor, Moira Penza, told the court on Friday that Ms. Bronfman had made a false statement to the government about an undocumented immigrant who provided "labor and service" for herself and Nxivm.
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Mr. Trump's lawyers have blanched at the idea of the president sitting down and being interviewed by Mr. Mueller and his team out of concern that the president might make a false statement.
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Mr. Cohen and Mr. Sekulow spoke frequently before Mr. Cohen submitted his false statement, and Mr. Cohen said Mr. Sekulow told him he should not elaborate because the Moscow project had not progressed.
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In January 2017, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway famously used the phrase "alternative facts" on MTP while defending a false statement by then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer, just two days into the administration.
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In his plea, he admitted to making a false statement and omissions in his foreign lobbying disclosure, known as a Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, filing, to the Justice Department in 2017.
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New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea said Detective Wilfredo Acevedo has never been found to have made a single false statement or falsely arrested anyone and touted his exemplary record of service.
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Sentencing guidelines recommended a sentence of up to six months imprisonment for Ms. Zhang, who was convicted of trespassing, a misdemeanor, and of making a false statement to a federal agent, a felony.
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At a news conference, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders apologized for the false statement that Trump created three times as many jobs for African-American workers as President Barack Obama did.
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Allen H. Loughry II, a 47-year-old justice at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, was charged by a federal grand jury on Wednesday with fraud, false statement, and witness tampering offenses.
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Separately, a court filing is unsealed revealing that former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI pertaining to the Russia probe.
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Separately, a court filing is unsealed revealing that former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI pertaining to the Russia probe.
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His new attorneys -- including Sidney Powell, who has been sympathetic to anti-Mueller conspiracy theories -- told the Virginia-based prosecutors he hadn't intentionally made a false statement in a foreign lobbying disclosure in 2017.
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James Burns also was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making a false statement, and two counts of violation of oath by a police officer, attorney Drew Findling said.
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Alejandra, 39, petitioned to become a citizen in 2001 but was rejected because she was accused of making a false statement at the border when she sought asylum in 1998, attorney Richard Maney said.
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Gates eventually struck a deal to cooperate with prosecutors in February of last year, pleading guilty to one conspiracy count and to making a false statement to the FBI and the special counsel's office.
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Before joining the Euclid Police Department, Amiott was forced to resign from a neighboring police department after making a false statement in a police report, according to a Mentor Police Department internal investigation report.
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Documents publicly shared by Corsi last year showed that he was offered a plea deal by Mueller's team, in which he would plead guilty to one count of making a false statement to investigators.
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Most of the prison sentence is for crimes he pleaded guilty to in a case brought by New York prosecutors for campaign finance violations, tax evasion and making a false statement to a bank.
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Mueller, who was appointed by the Justice Department to oversee the federal government's response into Moscow's meddling in the presidential election, is probing if Trump helped construct a "knowingly false statement," according to NBC.
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Additionally, George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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Under a plea agreement, Murgio has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of making a false statement to the U.S. National Credit Union Administration, said Stuart Kaplan, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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The most obvious recipient of such a presidential action would be Flynn, who faces a questionable false-statement charge and had to sell his home to cover legal costs before finally accepting the plea.
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According to the Times, last summer, Trump tried to order White House counsel Don McGahn, who also happens to be a witness in the Mueller probe, to issue a false statement to the public.
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Jackson threw out a charge that accused Craig of making a criminal false statement by omitting information about his work for a foreign government on a letter sent to the Justice Department in 2013.
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In the second case, a former accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission, David Humphrey, pleaded guilty to making a false statement on ethics forms filed with the agency about his trading in options.
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He also argued that one of the two false statement charges in the indictment is defective because the law in question only prohibits false statements in filings with the Justice Department's foreign-agent office.
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"The government could anchor a tax evasion and false statement case upon the multiple instances of self-dealing, as cataloged by the New York attorney general, between Mr. Trump and the foundation," Hackney continued.
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Former Trump campaign adviser Richard Gates also pleaded guilty Friday as part of a plea deal with Mueller on charges of conspiracy against the United States and making a false statement to the FBI.
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Former Trump campaign aide Richard Gates last week pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal with Mueller on charges of conspiracy against the United States and making a false statement to the FBI.
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Beyond the possible federal crime, Cohen could also be charged with breaking New York state law if he made a false statement to a bank or to investigators about how he used the money.
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Astarita later was accused of falsely denying he fired two shots at Finicum or his truck and pleaded not guilty to three counts of making a false statement and two counts of obstruction of justice.
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Brendt Christensen, a former master's student at the university, faces one count of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of making a false statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to an Oct.
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Federal law also prohibits someone from making a false statement when discussing a matter within the jurisdiction of the federal government if there is an intent to deceive a government agency about an important matter.
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When Cohen was drafting his false statement to Congress, the evidence showed Cohen communicated with Trump's lawyers, and not Trump himself — and Mueller said it wasn't clear if Trump knew what they were talking about.
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And anyone who has made false statements to the United States government about their contacts with the Russians would be guilty of making false statements, under the false statement statute, 18, United States Code 1001.
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The Papadopoulos I think is the biggest blockbuster because while the plea was specifically for making a false statement, if you read the statement of offense, there is a lot in there that show collusion.
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She can't [refuse] unless we let her do that … We have very important questions to ask of Hope Hicks about the preparation of that false statement about the meeting at Trump Tower with the Russians.
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Most use a model law that mandates financial penalties for anyone who deliberately makes a false statement on the document, said Patricia Potrzebowski, director of the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems.
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John Walcutt, the former managing member of Keystone Behavioral Pediatrics, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in Jacksonville, Florida to one count of making a false statement relating to healthcare matters, court records showed.
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He pointed out that "all reporting indicates they've got him dead to rights on a false statement felony" in his private interview with the FBI over his conversations last year with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
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He also was given draft court documents by Mueller's team last year alleging he had made a false statement to the investigators, but has since said he no longer believes he will be indicted. 36.
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George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty in October to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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She is the one who told Corallo that Don Jr.'s initial false statement that the Trump Tower meeting would never get out — leading Corallo to worry that she was attempting to mislead the public.
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"You create a false statement of fact, and then you discount a whole literature" Hundreds of articles by academic scientists have linked BPA to health problems in humans, including infertility, diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Davis confirmed sending Mr. Lowell the texts, but he added that Mr. Lowell had made other suggested changes to Mr. Cohen's 2017 false statement that were not incorporated into the final version.
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Mr. Sekulow's lawyers vigorously disputed Mr. Cohen's accounts, which more broadly suggested lawyers tied to the president had dangled pardons to try to secure his cooperation and helped shape his initial false statement to Congress.
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The police department said in a statement that Detective Acevedo had never been found by a judge or by the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board to have made a single false statement or false arrest.
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As has been well-documented, despite every offensive or false statement and tweet that comes from this White House, and shocking policies such as family separation at the border, Republicans in Congress essentially do nothing.
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Parlatore recently submitted Kerik's name for a pardon that would wipe clean a criminal record from a 2009 guilty plea for tax fraud and false statement charges and a since-completed four-year prison sentence.
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The one count of making a false statement to a financial institution has to do with Cohen's application for a home equity line of credit, which he used to get the money to pay Daniels.
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Paul Manafort Indicted in Russia InvestigationThe ex-Trump campaign chairman and his former business partner Rick Gates have been indicted on conspiracy, money laundering, and false-statement charges (plus others) by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Her lawyers are challenging the jury instruction in the case because the jury was told it could convict her even if the false statement at issue did not influence the government's decision to approve her naturalization.
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Baca pleaded guilty last February to the false statement charge but withdrew his plea in August after a judge ruled that the six-month prison term prosecutors recommended as part of the deal was too lenient.
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It seems clear that Gianforte's conduct, and especially the release of a false statement following the incident blaming the victim, violated congressional ethics rules by, among other things, not reflecting "creditably" on the House of Representatives.
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It turns out former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos has also pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after lying about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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Later Monday morning, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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In 2015 a court found Grant guilty of nine counts related to a fake Kenyan passport, including giving a false statement and making false documents, and sentenced him to a year in prison for each count.
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During that gap, there appear to have been at least four other instances in which the Police Department brought false-statement charges against officers based on the review board's referrals, according to interviews with police officials.
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Mr. Downing also pressed Mr. Gates on the number of interactions he had with the special counsel's office — Mr. Gates estimated around 246 meetings — and who from the office confronted him about giving a false statement.
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Painter said Trump Jr.'s use of a false statement drafted by his father will likely lead to a compromising ethical situation if a criminal investigation is taking place into the meeting with a Russian lawyer.
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" In his Monday comments, Biden did not repeat the false statement he made in an NPR interview that aired in September, in which he inaccurately claimed to have opposed the war from the "moment it started.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission fined him $20 million and required him to give up the chairman post because of a false statement that he had "funding secured" for such a move when he did not.
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Mr. Cohen testified in public that White House lawyers, including Jay Sekulow, had edited the false statement he delivered to Congress in 2017 about a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Corallo was also deeply disturbed by what he viewed as a false statement dictated by president from Air Force One about his son's Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and her associates, the source said.
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According to CNN affiliate WTNH, court documents show Simms has previously been charged with risk of injury to a child, breach of peace, false incident, violation of a protective order, misuse of emergency 911 and false statement.
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The only questions are whether Flynn intended to lie or just made an honest mistake, and whether any false statement he may have made was intended to impair the government's investigation of his discussions with the Russians.
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The US president has backtracked on a joint statement that was agreed upon at a G7 summit in Quebec just hours earlier because, Trump claims, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made "false statement" at a press conference.
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The trial beginning in Virginia today is the first of two that Manafort will face; the second trial in September in Washington, DC, will cover multiple counts of money laundering, conspiracy, and false statement charges, among others.
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The jury in Tacoma also acquitted Troy Kelley, 51, of a single charge of making a false statement to IRS agents in April 2013 after about four days of deliberation following more than five weeks of trial.
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None more so than his response when asked whether "the statement (made by his lawyer) that there was 'no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form, with President Clinton,' was an utterly false statement"?
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Corsi was questioned last year by the special counsel over his communications with Stone, and first revealed late last year that he had been offered a plea deal by Mueller for making a false statement to investigators.
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ABC News on Friday corrected a stunning news report about Michael Flynn, the former White House official who pleaded guilty to giving a false statement to the FBI, which sparked a feeding frenzy and ricocheted across markets.
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Beyond that, if an officer lies during an investigation, he or she cannot be charged with making a false statement unless the investigator presents the officer with a new set of allegations that specifically address the lie.
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Separately, Cohen pleads guilty to eight counts total, including five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, delivering what is viewed as a significant legal blow to Trump.
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Trump's remarks about Manafort stood in contrast to his comments about Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney who pleaded guilty to tax fraud, making a false statement to a financial institution and campaign finance violations on Tuesday.
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Separately, Cohen pleads guilty to eight counts total, including five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, delivering what is viewed as a significant legal blow to Trump.
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Three of the firms' executives — Louis Ciminelli of LPCiminelli, and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, of COR — also were convicted of conspiracy and wire fraud, and Mr. Gerardi was also found guilty of making a false statement.
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Mr. Cohen also cooperated with prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller and for the Southern District of New York and is now serving a federal prison sentence, in part for lying to Congress in his 2017 false statement.
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Robert "Robin" Hayes, a former North Carolina congressman and state Republican Party chairman, pleaded guilty Wednesday to making a false statement to the FBI during a federal campaign finance probe, the Justice Department said in a statement.
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Price's nomination has been controversial and drawn strong opposition from Democrats, who say he made a false statement to the Senate Finance Committee about an exclusive deal he was given on a medical stock while in Congress.
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PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - France's AMF stock market regulator said it was launching an investigation after the release of a false statement that prompted a slump in the shares of French construction group Vinci on Nov. 22.
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"I accept complete responsibility for my actions that have led me here," Gates, 47, told Judge Amy Berman Jackson before she sentenced him in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., for conspiracy and making a false statement.
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The false statement charge contained in a grand jury indictment returned on Friday also concerns Ms. Zhang's statement to a federal agent that she had come to use the pool, though she had no swimsuit with her.
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Remember, this also comes on the heels of a grand jury handing up a 16-count indictment against Jussie -- where it appears they nailed the actor for EACH allegedly false statement he made during 2 police interviews.
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"If you go into any institution that receives federal funds or is federally insured and you make a false statement, even if it's a local facility, now you've committed a federal crime," Malcolm said at the time.
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In 2010, Blumenthal came under criticism for a pattern of using ambiguous language that could leave the impression he served in Vietnam when he did not, and in one case an outright false statement that he served there.
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A transcript of the hearing details that the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser initially was charged with one count of "deletion or destruction of records" — in addition to the "false statement" charge to which he pleaded guilty.
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President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen provided new documents Wednesday to the House Intelligence Committee, showing edits made to his false statement to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2017, according to a CNN report.
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Andrew Skeene, a former director of Global Forestry Investments, has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to defraud, four offenses of forgery, misconduct and making a false statement between 2010 and 2015, the SFO said on Tuesday.
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Vasillios G. Pistolis was found guilty in a summary court-martial Monday of failure to obey an order or regulation and making a false statement, said 1st Lt. Samir J. Glenn-Roundtree of the 2nd Marine Logistics Group.
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And then, I'd want to make sure there was a clear understanding on the part of the subject of the interview that, whether or not it was within the grand jury, still a false statement would be prosecutable.
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Andrew Skeene, a former director of Global Forestry Investments, has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to defraud, four offences of forgery, misconduct and making a false statement between 2010 and 2015, the SFO said on Tuesday.
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The false statement marks the latest development related to a series of GFG bonds purchased by GAM fund manager Tim Haywood, who was suspended and then dismissed following an internal whistleblower alerting UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority.
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" Rule 103b-5 prohibits three types of violations: employing any "device, scheme or artifice to defraud"; making a false statement or omitting information that misleads investors; or engaging in conduct that "would operate as a fraud or deceit.
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The board, with more than 80 civilian investigators and jurisdiction over a wide range of police abuses, has referred between 13 and 60 false-statement cases to the Police Department annually in each of the last five years.
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More Michael Cohen documents: President Trump's former lawyer has provided new information to Congress in an effort to back up his claims that Mr. Trump's lawyers helped alter a false statement Mr. Cohen gave to lawmakers in 2017.
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Cohen not only submitted the false statement to Congress, but also served as a source for a Washington Post story that repeated the false information that the Moscow project was over by the end of January 2016, Mueller wrote.
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Michael Cohen's team is working to find drafts of a false statement he made to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2017 "that would reflect who edited what, and turn them over to lawmakers," the WashPost reports.
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Thaddeus Bereday, who was indicted in 2011 along with four other former WellCare executives, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Moody in Tampa, Florida, after pleading guilty to a false statement charge in June, according to court records.
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Nevertheless, an individual sometimes can put himself or herself in legal jeopardy if, during the course of an investigation, that person were to lie under oath, otherwise make a false statement to the government, or obstruct an ongoing investigation.
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The court papers detailing the charges against Papadopoulos for making a false statement to the FBI stated that Papadopoulos was only contacted by a professor with ties to Russia after the professor learned he was affiliated with the campaign.
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Williams, a state senator who saw his gubernatorial bid end with a loss in the Georgia GOP primary, turned himself in Wednesday on one count each of insurance fraud, filling a false crime report and making a false statement.
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That's critical, because it could well mean that Trump only needs to fear potential obstruction of justice charges related to his interactions with his former FBI director, James Comey, or false statement charges if he explicitly lies to investigators.
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Mr. Peterson was charged with perjury for making a false statement that he did not hear any shots fired after he arrived at the building, except for the first two or three shots he heard, according to the affidavit.
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The judge's dismissal of the FARA false-statement charge reduces Craig's possible prison sentence to a maximum of five years instead of 10 years, but barely shaves back the maximum fine he could face to $250,000, down from $260,000.
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The Warren campaign ran an ad on Facebook that included a false statement about the platform's founder and CEO — that he endorsed Trump for reelection — that was perhaps more effective than the Biden campaign's stern letter to the company.
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What the president has done in allegedly dictating a false statement about his son's meeting with the Russians is to expose everyone who was present to questioning by Mueller's team about what they saw and heard during that discussion.
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"I think I went through my campaign and my presidency without ever lying to the people or making a deliberately false statement, and I think that would be a very worthwhile thing to reinsert into politics these days," he added.
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FBI Agent W. Joseph Astarita later was accused of falsely denying he also fired two shots at Finicum or his truck and pleaded not guilty to three counts of making a false statement and two counts of obstruction of justice.
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Benowitz acknowledged that Gilbeau made a false statement when being questioned as part of a probe into a foreign defense contractor who allegedly won favorable treatment for his company by bribing Naval officers with prostitutes, luxury travel and others gifts.
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Other odds and ends The Mueller report also documents a lie about hush money payments made to women alleging they'd had affairs with Trump, as well as a false statement to the public about former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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But unlike the Ace Attorney games, where all this evidence is then used at a trial, here Malone is able to present it to the people she's interviewing to get their take or contradict a potentially false statement they've made.
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Polos, of West Nyack, New York, was found guilty in June along with Glen Glover, a former DEA telecommunications specialist, on conspiracy and false statement charges in connection with the club, where prosecutors said they were part-owners and worked.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against an American lobbyist for the Gabonese president, saying on Wednesday he made a false statement to a U.S. customs official stemming from a long-running money-laundering probe.
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U.S. Navy veteran Syed Raheel Farook, 31, his wife, Tatiana Farook, 31, and her sister Mariya Chernykh, 26, were arrested after being charged with conspiracy to make a false statement to immigration officials while under oath, the attorney's office said.
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He pleaded guilty to making a false statement about the effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign while testifying before Congress, according to court documents, and made false statements about the timing of the project.
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Fitzgerald's decision to dismiss part of the case was based on a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding what must be alleged under the False Claims Act to prove a company's false statement was material to the government paying it.
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He pleaded guilty to making a false statement about the effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 85033 presidential campaign while testifying before Congress, according to court documents, and made false statements about the timing of the project.
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Bank of America's "false statement that Mr. Voboril and another 26-year-old female employee were terminated for 'interfering' with a sham review about yet another employee's personal conduct was merely a convenient cover for the firm," said Kennedy, Voboril's lawyer.
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According to the transcript, Cohen told lawmakers in February that he discussed his false statement to Congress with Sekulow in 28500 before he delivered it and that Sekulow encouraged him to say the Trump Tower Moscow discussions ended in January 6900.
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Ironically, McCabe's position may have been undermined by the man he once helped to investigate, Michael Flynn, who was indicted and pleaded guilty to a single false statement in denying that sanctions were discussed with Russian diplomats during the presidential transition.
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At the time, there were questions over Clovis' relationship with George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser who has admitted to making a false statement to the FBI regarding his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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First, this is not "fake news" but serious news created by Trump and his team in issuing a clearly misleading statement to the New York Times, then issuing a false statement denying that Trump drafted the statement to the media.
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Designed to cover "a false statement of fact… has been or is being communicated in Singapore" or cases where politicians believe that issuing a correction is "in the public interest," the bill also claims reach overseas — or, rather, intended reach overseas.
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Under cross-examination, Kathleen Bliss, one of Mr. Cosby's lawyers pushed her to answer why she had not told police investigating her Cosby account about her 2007 conviction for making a false statement to the police in an unrelated case.
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The board has been notified of only two cases — out of the 22014 it has been able to track since 281 — in which the Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau upheld the board's accusation that the officer had made a false statement.
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Mr. Mueller has also been examining a false statement that the president reportedly dictated on Air Force One in July in response to an article in The Times about a meeting that Trump campaign officials had with Russians in 2016.
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Law Department spokesman Bill McCaffrey said enforcement of the city's false statement code amounts to a civil action, not a criminal case, carrying a maximum fine of $1,000 plus up to three times the amount of damages to the city.
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Mr. Trump's decision to give written responses was a significant victory for his lawyers, who long urged him to avoid meeting face to face with investigators because they feared Mr. Trump would make a false statement and increase his criminal exposure.
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If the judge declines to unwind Flynn's guilty plea or throw the case out altogether, Flynn faces a maximum penalty under the law of up to five years in prison on the single false-statement charge admitted to in December 2017.
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Former national security adviser Michael Flynn should get probation and no jail time if he's sentenced next month on a felony false-statement charge he pleaded guilty to in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, Flynn's lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.
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Democrats have already latched onto that fact in a court filing earlier this week suggesting Trump made a false statement to the Mueller investigators in his written answers by responding he didn't recall discussing the Democratic email hacks with Stone.
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In a heavily redacted summary of his FBI interview, Cohen does not specify who in the White House told him to put out the false statement, but in Congressional testimony, he said he was "indirectly told" by President Donald Trump.
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There are reports that the White House is pushing for the back-and-forth to take place in writing, as there are concerns among some of Trump's allies about the potential for him to make a false statement under oath.
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Nonetheless, taking the Fifth may be a strategic device that his lawyers correctly advise to ensure that he doesn't commit a crime going forward, by giving a false statement when sitting for an interview or testifying at a grand jury.
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Trump has said he is eager to testify under oath to the special counsel, but some of the president's allies are concerned about the potential for him making a false statement over the course of a free-wheeling back-and-forth.
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Gates pleaded guilty to two charges brought against him by Mueller's team in federal court in Washington, D.C.: one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making a false statement to the FBI agents investigating Russian interference.
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Encinia could face up to a year in jail if found guilty of making a false statement when he said in his report that he pulled Bland out of her car to further investigate the traffic stop, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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CNN has reported that the statute of limitations for the matter for which Craig was originally investigated -- having failed to register as a foreign agent -- has expired and that prosecutors have instead been weighing bringing a false statement charge against him.
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Gates pleaded guilty to two charges brought against him by Mueller's team in federal court in Washington, D.C.: one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making a false statement to the FBI agents investigating Russian interference.
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Flynn — who is awaiting sentencing on a felony false-statement charge — had been expected to be the prosecution's star witness against Kian, but some uncertainty has developed on that front in the past day or two after Flynn fired his lawyers.
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PEOPLE confirms that Bo Dukes faces up to 25 years in prison after being convicted on four criminal counts: two counts for making a false statement, along with single counts of hindering the apprehension of a criminal and concealing the death of another.
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" They are charged with violating federal laws that ban making "any false statement or claim that he is a citizen of the United States in order to register to vote," and stating it is "unlawful for any alien to vote in any election.
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He entered a guilty plea on that new set of charges a few hours later at a hearing the federal district court in Washington, DC. The new information lodged two charges against Gates: conspiracy against the United States and making a false statement.
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Status: Incarcerated; sentenced to death; sentence commuted to life in prison by former governor George RyanGuevara's alleged misconduct: Coerced confession, witness tampering Mulero said in a legal filing that Guevara manipulated her into signing a false statement implicating her in a double murder.
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DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James is recommending that the grand jury return an indictment for Officer James Olsen on two counts of felony murder; aggravated assault; two counts of violation of an oath by an officer; and making a false statement.
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A Chinese woman has been charged with making a false statement to the U.S. Secret Service after entering President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on bogus pretenses, while carrying a thumb drive that contained "malicious software," court documents revealed Tuesday.
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Earlier this week, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates surrendered to special counsel Robert Mueller, and another former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI.
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Lieu and Rice, who are both former prosecutors, invoked rules that prohibit obstruction of another party's access to evidence, making a false statement to a tribunal and engaging in dishonesty or misrepresentation that reflect adversely on a lawyer's fitness to practice law.
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Last August, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes — five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of willingly causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution.
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In McKee versus Cosby, Thomas urged the Supreme Court to revisit the First Amendment rule that public figures cannot pursue damages for defamation absent a showing that the defendant indeed made a false statement or acted with reckless disregard of its truth.
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Burns was charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, making a false statement, and violating the oath of office for allegedly firing into Roger's car, even though he had no way of knowing whether the car contained the suspect he was looking for.
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In another extraordinary exchange, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Torres clashed with the corporation counsel, Zachary W. Carter, who intervened as they were pressing Ms. Olatoye about a false statement she made to the Council in December regarding the training of lead paint inspectors.
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Officials added a perjury charge alleging that Mr. Peterson knowingly made a false statement while under oath in stating that he did not hear shots fired after he arrived at the 1200 building, except for the first two or three shots he heard.
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That call could shed light on whether Trump or his staff intended to obstruct justice when Trump helped draft his son's false statement about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and a Russian lawyer with ties to Putin's government.
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Greg Craig, who served as the first White House counsel in the Obama administration, scored a pretrial win Tuesday as a judge threw out one of two charges in a false-statement case against him stemming from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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This may explain one of the more revealing moments from after the election, when one of Mr. Trump's campaign surrogates, Scottie Nell Hughes, was asked to defend the clearly false statement by Mr. Trump that millions of votes had been cast illegally.
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By Tuesday, an effort was underway online to discredit the child's family, and a false statement claiming the episode was staged was widely shared on Facebook and Twitter — even though the hospital said the case was true and issued an official apology.
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That's key because assuming Nunes wants to sue CNN and the Daily Beast for defamation, he'd have to prove that the outlets not only made a false statement of fact about him but also that they had malicious intent in doing so.
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What exactly constitutes "a false statement of fact" is to be defined by the government, which can then choose to issue a demand for a correction, removal of the offending post, or to pursue legal action against the poster or social network.
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Last fall, Page admitted that the topic of Russia "may have come up" in emails with campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to charges of making a false statement to the FBI about his contact with Russian government officials.
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According to Judge Townes, Judge Stanton went astray because he "ignored the fact that directors must still use their business judgment in deciding what course of action to take when alerted to a materially false statement in a corporate proxy statement," she wrote.
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"Defendants have made no record as to how biosecurity is threatened by a person making a false statement to get access to, or employment in, an agricultural production facility," it wrote, concluding that there couldn't be a compelling state interest in biosecurity here.
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"Reading for the first time the New Introduction, while waiting for a plane back to Fort Lauderdale, brought the issue home and led to the Motion to Clarify," wrote Rogow and other lawyers defending Stone against false-statement and witness-tampering charge.
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Mr. Trump did not explicitly instruct him to lie to Congress, Mr. Cohen said, but through his actions, he "made clear to me" that "he wanted me to lie," and the president's lawyers reviewed and even edited Mr. Cohen's false statement to Congress.
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LOAN FROM BANC OF CALIFORNIA - TWO COUNTS Prosecutors charged Manafort with bank fraud and bank fraud conspiracy for submitting a false statement of assets and liabilities, among other misleading information, to secure a $1 million business loan from Banc of California in 2016.
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In late January, the New York Times reported that Hicks's name has also popped up in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation because Hicks allegedly helped the president craft his false statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting with the Russians.
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The clip of Clinton was pulled from a campaign event in Nevada earlier this year, where she told a story about an unusual old campaign ad from her days in Arkansas, that featured a dog barking every time a politician made a false statement.
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According to court documents, Mueller charges that Cohen "knowingly and deliberately made the following false representations" in his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee: False statement #1: The Moscow Project ended in January 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others in the Trump Organization.
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Reports in recent months have indicated that special counsel Robert Mueller is very interested in President Donald Trump's role in drafting his son's false statement about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and a Russian lawyer with ties to Putin's government.
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U.S. District Judge Sean Cox accepted the company's guilty plea to conspiracy to commit fraud, obstruction and entry of goods by false statement charges and set an April 21 sentencing date, where he must decide whether to approve the terms of the plea agreement.
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The Times, citing the allegations included in the indictment, reported that the suspect was later charged with possession, use, and discharge of a gas or pellet gun based on a false statement of probable cause from W.J., who wrote the statement under another officer's name.
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In October, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI "about the timing, extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials," according to court filings.
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The highest ranking official at BP accused of a crime, David I. Rainey, a vice president, was acquitted last year of making a false statement to the F.B.I. in an interview after another charge of obstructing a congressional investigation into the oil spill was dismissed.
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The documents state that Corsi made the false statement when asked about a July 25, 2016 email sent by an individual – who Corsi identified as Stone – who asked that Corsi look into what emails WikiLeaks possessed and would release ahead of the 2016 election.
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But legal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said it was asking the Department of Justice and Office of Government Ethics to investigate whether Trump made an illegal false statement by not including the $130,000 payment in his personal financial disclosures.
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But at that hearing, Judge Sullivan, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, excoriated Mr. Flynn for claiming that the F.B.I. had set him up to make a false statement when he lied to agents about his contacts with the ambassador.
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Mr. Encinia was indicted on a charge of perjury — the only criminal charge arising from the case — after grand jurors accused him of making a false statement in his claim that he removed Ms. Bland from her car to more safely conduct a traffic investigation.
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Former top Trump campaign and inauguration official Rick Gates last month was sentenced to 45 days in jail for conspiracy and making a false statement in a federal case that was related to his and Manafort's work for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.
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By afternoon, one of Harvard's scientific luminaries was in handcuffs, charged with making a false statement to federal authorities about his financial relationship with the Chinese government, and especially his participation in its Thousand Talents program, a campaign to attract foreign-educated scientists to China.
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The recent assurance that Trump is not officially a target — first reported by The Washington Post — may not be worth much, since offering what prosecutors consider to be a false statement can easily tip someone over into the target category after an interview, lawyers said.
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Federal prosecutors are denouncing as a "fishing expedition" a demand by Michael Flynn's new defense attorneys for nearly 50 categories of information that they contend will undercut the felony false-statement charge the former national security adviser pleaded guilty to nearly two years ago.
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The news broke on the same day that Rick Gates, Manafort's former business associate and a fellow top Trump campaign official, was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation for conspiracy and making a false statement, in a case related to Manafort.
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Mr. Meek, 22, pleaded guilty last April to two federal counts related to the truthfulness of his responses to the F.B.I. in interviews shortly after the shooting on June 17, 2015 — misprision of a felony and making a false statement to a law enforcement officer.
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For example, he is also said to have left contacts with Russian officials off his application for a security clearance and again failed to disclose them in response to questions by officials processing that application, which could have resulted in separate false statement charges.
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As the New York Times reports: Under cross-examination, Kathleen Bliss, one of Mr. Cosby's lawyers pushed her to answer why she had not told police investigating her Cosby account about her 2007 conviction for making a false statement to the police in an unrelated case.
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Russia seemed to have gotten the message because Vladimir Putin later announced there would be no new sanctions imposed against the US. In almost every false statement prosecution, the person being charged doesn't deny making the statement (especially where, like here, there is a recording of it).
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So was the column she spent hand-wringing about when it's a good idea to call a false statement from a politician a "lie" — not because the reporter may not know whether the politician is knowingly lying, but because it sounds partisan to use the L-word.
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As part of the settlement, Volkswagen has agreed to plead guilty to three felony counts under U.S. law: conspiracy to defraud the United States, commit wire fraud and violate the Clean Air Act; obstruction of justice; and entry of goods into the United States by false statement.
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Penn State knew hazing was taking place and took a 'Well, that's what goes on here' kind of attitude, so when they said there was zero tolerance for hazing, that was a false statement and (Vivenzio) says he wouldn't have rushed if he'd known about hazing.
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Former federal prosecutors told the Post that the move could indicate that the special counsel's team is moving toward filing charges against Stone, as they would need an official record of his interview in order to come out with a charge like making a false statement.
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The Fulton County grand jury indicted the former officer, James Burns, on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault, making a false statement and two counts of violation of oath of office in the killing of Deravis Caine Rogers, 22, according to Drew Findling, the defense lawyer.
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District Judge William Pauley on Tuesday turned down the request and gave Cohen a tongue-lashing for refusing to come to terms with the gravity of the tax fraud, campaign finance and false statement charges Cohen pleaded guilty to about a year and a half ago.
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The former aide, James A. Wolfe, 58, pleaded guilty in October to one count of making a false statement to the F.B.I. during an interview last December, when he denied that he had been in contact with reporters whose work was the focus of the leak probe.
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When The Times approached the White House in July 2017 with knowledge of a secret meeting during the 2016 campaign between Russians and top advisers to Donald J. Trump, the administration put out a false statement, saying the meeting was set up to discuss Russian adoptions.
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"Our educators in our cheating scandal in Atlanta were way over-prosecuted and way over-punished," said Bob Rubin, who represents Dana Evans, a former principal, who was convicted of a racketeering charge and of making a false statement to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent.
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"Our educators in our cheating scandal in Atlanta were way over-prosecuted and way over-punished," said Bob Rubin, who represents Dana Evans, a former principal, who was convicted of a racketeering charge and of making a false statement to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent.
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Horowitz's review also found that the FBI used one such briefing as an attempt to gain evidence for its ongoing inquiry into Trump adviser Michael Flynn, who later became national security adviser, was fired and eventually pleaded guilty to a false-statement charge in the Mueller probe.
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For example, if it turns out that Mr. Flynn made a false statement not just to Mr. Pence but also to F.B.I. agents about his conversations with the Russian ambassador, that could be a separate offense for which there is a history of prosecuting high-level officials.
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Some of Trump's lawyers also believe Mueller lacks legal standing on matters that the special counsel is said to be investigating, such as Trump's role in drafting the false statement about the meeting his son Donald Trump Jr. had with Russians in Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Since then, Corallo has spoken with Mueller about what he viewed as a false statement dictated by Trump from Air Force One about a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York City that included several Russians, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Lasha — who tearfully exclaimed, "You remember, don't you, Mr. Cosby?" during her testimony Wednesday — was convicted of making a false statement to the police in 2007 about an unrelated case, an easy, and not unpersuasive, line of attack that made some observers question why the prosecution enlisted Lasha.
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Dubray is charged with tampering with evidence, felony accessory to first-degree murder, false statement and misprision of a felony — or that she allegedly concealed her knowledge of a felony by not reporting it and misled law enforcement as to the nature and the extent of the alleged abuse.
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The DeKalb County grand jury indicted DeKalb County police Officer Robert Olsen on two counts of felony murder, one count of aggravated assault, one count of making a false statement and two counts of violation of oath by a public officer, DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James announced.
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In a second related case last week in Sacramento, the U.S. Department of Justice said Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, who came to the United States in 2012 as a refugee from Syria, was arrested on a federal charge of making a false statement involving international terrorism.
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He first publicly revealed last year that special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's team had offered him a plea deal for making a false statement to investigators.
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Washington (CNN)A former House staffer who has been the subject of several tweets by President Donald Trump has struck a plea deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty to making a false statement on a bank loan application during a court appearance in Washington, DC, federal court Tuesday morning.
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A few of Trump's biggest whoppers include Trump's claim during the campaign that "crime was rising," to his false statement that there was "serious voter fraud" in the 2016 election to his recent lie that the 2018 budget included the first raise for the military in ten years.
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Washington (CNN)A former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government -- the campaign's clearest connection so far to Russia's efforts to meddle in the 12.73 election.
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To be excessively fair to Sanders, her initial false statement may have been dictated by other officials—maybe she was told last year that Trump didn't have anything to do with that statement, and so wasn't so much lying on behalf of the administration as being lied to herself.
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The final three counts, though, are the most shocking: one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution from June 2016 to October 2016, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution on October 27, 2016.
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A person familiar with what Mr. Cohen told the committee about the editing of the false statement said that at the time, Mr. Davis, who is Mr. Cohen's lawyer, sent texts to Mr. Lowell to say that Mr. Cohen was not suggesting he had tried to advance false information.
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Cohen has pleaded guilty to all eight counts, including five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of willful cause of unlawful corporate contribution from June 123 to October 212, and one excessive campaign contribution on October 2500, 2000.
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Detective Mitchell, 55, was charged with three counts of deprivation of rights under color of law (the term for a crime committed by a police officer on duty), two counts of witness tampering, one count of obstructing justice and one of providing a false statement to federal agents.
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JAY SEKULOW, AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: I&aposm not concerned about it because if you look at what, again, George Papadopoulos&apos plea is, what the actual plea being entered into was, again, a false statement about timing as to when he talked to somebody about Russian activities.
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So contrary to his campaign's transparently false statement that Trump brought "closure to the issue" in 2011, Trump continued to spread nonsense about it for years afterward and come up with new bogus reasons not to believe the document Obama released: Let's take a closer look at that birth certificate.
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"Although Deputy Director McCabe acknowledged that 'the two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn't think he was lying, [which] was not [a] great beginning of a false statement case,' General Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements on December 85033, 2017," a newly unredacted part of the report reads.
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After Grassley/Graham sent the "criminal referral" on the Steele matter, did they also send one regarding Natalia Veselnitskaya's false statement to the Judiciary Committee claiming she had no ties to the Russian government, only to fess up later that she was an informant of Yuri Chaika, the prosecutor general?
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It was revealed that former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government, the campaign's clearest connection so far to Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.
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But the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan overturned the verdict this year by ruling that the government had not shown fraud because there was no false statement made when Countrywide sold loans that did not meet certain contractual obligations it had with Fannie and Freddie.
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"While you cannot possibly respond to every false statement in the press reports, you may want to (or at least have the press office do so) point out obvious whoppers to some of these reporters/writers," wrote Kavanaugh, then associate counsel to former President George W. Bush, according to CNN.
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Finally, after federal agents confronted him with DNA test results proving that he was not the long-missing Timmothy but rather a 23-year-old felon, Brian Rini came clean, according to court documents released on Friday as he was charged in Ohio with making a false statement to federal officials.
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In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges on eight counts, including five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of being a "willful cause" of an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution.
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The former aide, James A. Wolfe, 57, agreed to plead guilty, without a trial, to one count of making a false statement to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in an interview in December, when he flatly denied contacts with various reporters whose articles were under scrutiny in the leak investigation.
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One thing I realized during the 2016 campaign was that the president benefited from the way traditional news stories were constructed; we have tried to make clear when he is saying something false, or when his aides are, in the first paragraphs of stories instead of just repeating the false statement.
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According to the report, Manhattan's Major Economic Crimes unit thought the claims made against the Trumps possessed merit: They believed that Ivanka and Donald, Jr., might have violated the Martin Act, a New York statute that bans any false statement in conjunction with the sale of a security or real estate.
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Also on Tuesday, Manafort's former business associate Rick Gates, who had served on Trump's campaign and inaugural committee, was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation for conspiracy and making a false statement for a federal case that was related to his and Manafort's work in Ukraine.
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While the tax evasion and false statement charges were rooted in Cohen's taxi medallion business, the campaign finance charges were directly related to his work for Trump -- specifically, payments Cohen made or helped orchestrate that were designed to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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The lawyers also believe that Mueller's team lacks the legal standing to interview the president in some areas, such as his role in drafting the false statement about the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with Russians, and that in other areas the president cannot be questioned on acts that were legal.
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Cover: Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, departs the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse following a pre-sentencing hearing July 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Flynn has been charged with a single count of making a false statement to the FBI by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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Not only would it be burdensome to constantly comply with every request for de-anonymizing a user who could potentially be making a false statement, but if users don't feel comfortable being honest, they will likely stop contributing to the platform or go to a competitor that offers better protections for anonymity.
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Questions are swirling over Clovis' relationship with George Papadopoulos -- the Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who has admitted to making a false statement to the FBI regarding his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government -- and a trip Papadopoulos took during the election where he met with a Russian figure.
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Sanders utilized the beginning of the press briefing to defend President Donald Trump's tax plan, rather than immediately address news that his former aide, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, face indictments -- and that a former policy adviser to Trump, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI.
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In his opening statements, Mr. Kobach, Harvard-educated and Yale Law School-trained, criticized current rules as weak and porous, arguing that a requirement that voters attest on a form at the Department of Motor Vehicles that they are citizens — risking a penalty of perjury for a false statement — is not enough.
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In late October, unsealed court records showed Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government, and in December, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and disclosed he was cooperating with the special counsel investigation.
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"Every person has a very individual and unique relationship to sound in general, and so to say that each person who goes to experience a sound bath is going to have a 'blank-blank-blank' experience would be a false statement, because people have all different types of experiences with sound," Auster told me.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to a total of eight counts, including five counts of tax evasion involving nearly $4 million, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of willful cause of unlawful corporate contribution from June 2016 to October 20063, and one excessive campaign contribution on October 27, 2016.
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He first publicly revealed last year that special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's team had offered him a plea deal for making a false statement to investigators.
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It was also revealed on Monday that former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government, the campaign's clearest connection so far to Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates surrendered Monday to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, and former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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It was eventually recovered by the Baltimore Police Department's crime lab unit and the suspect was subsequently charged with possession, use, and discharge of a gas or pellet gun — as well as a number of drug offenses — based on a false statement of probable cause written by W.J. in another officer's name, the indictment said.
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The former officer, Robert Olsen, was acquitted of murder, but found guilty of charges including aggravated assault, violating the oath of his office and making a false statement after the fatal encounter with Anthony Hill, whom Mr. Olsen shot twice in a parking lot after residents said he was running around, knocking on doors.
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Mr. Olsen was indicted by a grand jury in 2016 on six counts, including two counts of felony murder and one count of making a false statement after he told another officer that Mr. Hill had "physically assaulted him prior to the shooting" by pounding on Mr. Olsen's chest, according to the charging documents.
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In 2010, in the federal case that yielded the conviction at issue in President Trump's pardon, Mr. Kerik pleaded guilty to two counts of tax fraud, one count of making a false statement on a loan application and five counts of making false statements to the federal government while being vetted for senior posts.
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"His assertion that, while clearly somebody would have known if they simply looked -- and the doctor can tell that a child is being sexually abused -- we've known that is a false statement for decades," Dr. James Crawford-Jakubiak, medical director of the Center for Child Protection at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, said of Bevin.
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We know that multiple people within Trump's orbit -- former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen -- have all pleaded guilty to making false statement to either Congress or federal investigators (or both) regarding the nature and breadth of their contacts with the Russians during the campaign.
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Mueller wrote that members of that agreement were involved in editing a false statement that Cohen submitted to Congress in August 2017; the report doesn't specify who specifically was involved in editing the statement, but does note that Cohen spoke with Trump's personal counsel almost every day in the two weeks leading up to submitting the statement to Congress.
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Trump's EPA Pick Appears to Have Made a False Statement Under Oath in Senate Hearing; He Denies"I am shocked to hear that he would say that under oath," said an advocate who has…Read more ReadThe Clean Air ActPruitt has also filed suit against the EPA to block regulatory amendments to the Clean Air Act.
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Cohen pled guilty — and threw Trump under the bus Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes that took place between 2012 and 2016: five counts of tax evasion; a count of giving a financial institution a false statement; one count of being a "willful cause" of an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution.
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Riverside, California (CNN)Enrique Marquez, a friend of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, two counts of making false statements when buying two rifles, one count of marriage fraud and one count of making a false statement on immigration paperwork.
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Even if it were the case that no agreement was reached on June 9, 2016, and therefore, there was no violation of the conspiracy laws, if a person were to make a knowing and intentional false statement about any material aspect of the meeting to federal investigators, that conduct could constitute a violation of Section 1001.
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At a 2009 hearing to help her husband avoid deportation after he was convicted of making a false statement by concealing his military service, she admitted that when she had applied to be a refugee she had not revealed that from 1992 to 1997 the family lived in Bosnia and her husband served in the military.
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She is regularly dispatched by her boss to mislead the American people on issues ranging from whether the president paid hush money to Stormy Daniels, the former porn star who claims to have had an affair with Mr. Trump, to whether he dictated a false statement about the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russians.
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"Among other things, it appears that your clients may have reviewed, shaped and edited the false statement that Cohen submitted to the committee, including causing the omission of material facts," the Intelligence Committee's chairman, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, wrote to lawyers representing the four men in a May 3 letter obtained by The New York Times.
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In February, van der Zwaan, a former London-based attorney for the U.S. law firm Skadden Arps, pleaded guilty to a felony false-statement charge, admitting that he lied to the FBI and lawyers for Mueller's office during questioning about his involvement with a report Skadden prepared in 2012 at the request of the Ukrainian government.
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But Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to making false statement to federal investigators, said during a March 31, 2016, national security meeting "that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin," according to a plea deal released on Monday as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's election interference.
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ZTE agreed to pay $430 million in connection with the criminal case to resolve the IEEPA violation and related obstruction and false-statement charges; $100 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); and up to $661 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry Security (BIS).
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Last month, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates surrendered to Mueller and pleaded not guilty after an indictment contained 12 counts against them, and former Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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" Lawrence Byrne, the department's top legal official, disclosed in a recent panel discussion at the City Bar Association that 73 officers had "been fired or forced out of the department in the last five years for either perjury or making a false statement," and that about twice that many officers had faced lesser penalties for false statements "in the last few years.
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Former Trump campaign aide Richard Gates admitted that even while he was in discussions with special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's team of prosecutors about a plea deal, he made a false statement to investigators.
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A statement of offense attached to Gates's plea agreement stated that the former Trump campaign aide made a false statement about a 2013 meeting with his longtime business associate Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE, Rep.
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Cohen was charged with five counts of tax evasion from 2012 to 2016, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution from February 2015 to April 2016, one count of being a "willful cause" of an unlawful corporate contribution from June 2016 to October 2016, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution on October 27. 2016.
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Among other details, Lewinsky said Clinton encouraged her to lie to the independent counsel, an allegation raising the possibility of a variety of crimes having been committed by Clinton, including the false statement offense used rather extensively by special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE.
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, dismissed the charge against Craig for making a false statement to the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit, according to a court filing in Washington, D.C. She wrote that there is ambiguity surrounding whether the federal statute can be applied to the document Craig submitted in October 2013 that allegedly contained materially false information.
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The new poll was conducted Thursday through Sunday, following the announcement last week of indictments against Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, and his associate, Rick Gates, as well as news that a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign had pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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On Monday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, surrendered to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller and pleaded not guilty to several charges, including conspiracy against the US. It was also announced that Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty earlier this month to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.
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CNN has compiled a list of the growing and diverse cast of characters amid news that a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with Russians who had close ties to the Kremlin, the campaign's clearest connection so far to Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.
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Despite the defense's victory on that point Tuesday, the 74-year-old Washington lawyer is still set to face a jury trial next week on another false-statement charge relating to what prosecutors say was an attempt to deceive investigators about his role in promoting a report he prepared on behalf of the Ukrainian government in 2012 about its corruption prosecution of former President Yulia Tymoshenko.
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Manafort faces a separate trial in September in Washington, D.C., also on charges brought by Mueller that include conspiring to defraud the government and launder money, making false statement to federal officials, and failing to disclose he was acting as a political consultant and lobbyist for now-former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the political party Yanukovych led and the party that took over after Yanukovych fled to Russia in 2014.
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Manafort faces a separate trial in September in Washington, D.C., also on charges brought by Mueller that include conspiring to defraud the government and launder money, making false statement to federal officials, and failing to disclose he was acting as a political consultant and lobbyist for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the political party Yanukovych led and the party that took over after he fled to Russia in 2014.
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The president's response was a word salad that included denunciations of the Democratic National Committee not giving its physical server to the FBI (a frequent hobbyhorse of his), a conspiracy theory about a separate case involving a Pakistani American who was working for House Democrats before being embroiled in scandal and pleading guilty to making a false statement on a loan application, and those famous "missing emails" of Clinton's.
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I think because we do not yet have any context in which the president himself has given testimony under oath about any of these matters the real issue with respect to any potential falsehoods, lies, or misstatements that the president has made to the public or to others is about the way in which it fits the narrative of obstruction [rather than] some potentially false statement or lie that would be actionable.
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Manafort is also facing a trial in September in Washington, D.C., on separate federal charges brought by Mueller, which include conspiring to defraud the government and launder money, making false statement to federal officials, and failing to disclose he was acting as a political consultant and lobbyist for now-former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the political party Yanukovych led and the party that took over after Yanukovych fled to Russia in 2014.
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And Papadopoulos, after an exhaustive investigation by special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE, was not accused of conspiracy with Russia; instead, he pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI about a months-old conversation with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer regarding a rumor that Russia possessed embarrassing emails from Clinton.
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Boland also said Sater asserted "a baseless claim of attorney-client privilege" in response to a question about former Trump attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenCapitol Police advised Gaetz against holding open events I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations MORE's false statement to Congress about the property discussions in summer 2017.
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Making a false statement to a federal official is a felony offense, but nowhere near as bad as what the special counsel, Robert Mueller, could likely have charged Mr. Flynn with, including charges for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (similar to those brought against the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates) or those stemming from a possible attempt to kidnap a Turkish cleric in Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Dowd also discussed the possibility of pardons with lawyers for Mr. Manafort and Mr. Trump's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn; told the special counsel that the president would probably provide a false statement if he were to be interviewed by prosecutors; and did not properly document his legal work for Mr. Trump, forcing the next iteration of the president's legal team to devote months to redoing some of the same work.
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In the Clinton e-mail probe, every time there was a fork in the road, they went easy on Hillary Clinton and her associates, whether that was declining to ring people up on false statement charges, even though they knew they were giving false statements -- and that goes all the way up to and including Hillary Clinton -- or giving immunity to everyone in her orbit, they really took the path of just going easy on her.
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In an interview with Fox News's Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityTrump calls Juan Williams 'pathetic,' 'always nasty and wrong' Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Maher stands by recession remarks: 'Very worth' getting rid of Trump MORE this week, Dowd called Mueller's report a "fraud" and accused him of making "a false statement" in his report by editing down the transcript of the voicemail in a way that altered the "tenor and contents" of his contacts with Kelner.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man pleaded guilty on Thursday to obstructing a regulatory examination of a credit union linked to an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli accused of being behind hacking attacks on companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co. Michael Murgio, 153, admitted in Manhattan federal court he drafted a letter in 2014 with a false statement that was sent to the National Credit Union Administration during an examination of the New Jersey-based credit union.
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Cohen also acknowledged violating banking laws to obtain the money to pay Daniels; he admitted to a campaign-finance charge regarding a hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar payment to silence the former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, to benefit Trump's Presidential campaign; and he pleaded guilty to making a false statement to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump tower in Moscow, so that he could align his account with Trump's own false public statements on the subject.
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For example, during a lease application process for a home in California, the property owner wanted Julie Chrisley to provide a credit report and bank statements showing the couple had at least $22010,27 in their accounts, the indictment says "When applying to rent the home in July 22013, Julie Chrisley transmitted multiple fabricated documents that had been physically cut and then glued or taped together, and Todd Chrisley sent an email containing a false statement about the Chrisleys' available funds," it says.
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CREW sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE and David Apol, the acting director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), to investigate whether Ross made a false statement about divesting himself of his stock in Invesco, assets he was required sell, which was the firm he managed before taking the Commerce job.
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After Kerik pleaded guilty to tax fraud and false statement charges, the judge handed down a particularly harsh four-year prison sentence, stating on the record, "The fact that Mr. Kerik would use (the 9/11 attacks) for personal gain and aggrandizement is a dark place in the soul for me.." Perhaps the President knew of Judge Robinson's rather dim view of Mr Kerik's character but the White House press release describes the former NYC police commissioner as someone who "embodied the strength, courage, compassion and spirit of the people of New York" during the 9/11 attacks.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's former attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenI'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Hope Hicks defends accuracy of her congressional testimony MORE reportedly gave the House Intelligence Committee documents showing edits to the false statement about the construction of a Trump Tower Moscow that he delivered to Congress in 2017.
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Sanders, who had a contentious relationship with the press during her tenure at the Trump White House, captured national headlines last year after she acknowledged making a false statement about former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyJudge rules former WH counsel McGahn must testify under subpoena Sarah Sanders: 'I don't like being called a liar' Kennedy on Russia probe IG report: 'I'm not going to draw conclusions based on allegations by the anonymous source' MORE's firing by President TrumpDonald John TrumpOvernight Defense: Ex-Navy secretary slams Trump in new op-ed | Impeachment tests Pompeo's ties with Trump | Mexican president rules out US 'intervention' against cartels EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Giuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' MORE.
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Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerPresident tweets 'few work harder' than Ivanka, Jared PETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Top immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign MORE and Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpPETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties MORE: A cooperating Manafort is more of a threat, not to Trump (who has not given statements to investigators), but to son-in-law Jared Kusher and son Donald Jr. If Manafort contradicts their accounts of the Trump Tower meeting or its aftermath, Mueller could bring false statement charges against them, which he has used as his primary prosecutorial device.
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