Obstruction and False Statements: White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement
The old adage states that the cover-up is worse than the crime and, in reality, countless white collar crime investigations are ultimately focused on obstruction and false statements. Whether this focus is through the prism of the federal false statements statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1001, or other false statements and false reporting statutes aimed at particular industries or conduct, or through the expansive obstruction statutes, see, e.g. 18 U.S.C. § 1519, Crowell & Moring attorneys have defended and litigated alleged false statement violations in a wide array of contexts, including:
- Every conceivable species of procurement fraud, such as alleged quality defects, cost accounting violations, defective pricing, mischarging of costs, conflicts of interest, misuse of procurement-sensitive information, foreign bribery, and foreign military sales issues
- All manner of alleged false statements and other forms of obstruction during government investigations
- Alleged false reporting to a federal agency by a major transportation company (client acquitted at trial)
- Alleged withholding of the results of safety tests from a federal agency by the vice president of quality assurance of a major pharmaceutical company (client acquitted at trial)Alleged false statements to a federal agency by a food company executive in connection with the largest food recall in U.S. history (client acquitted at trial)
- Alleged false statements to a variety of federal agencies and investigators by the former Associate Attorney General of the United States (indictment dismissed on eve of trial in exchange for plea bargain highly favorable to defendant)
- Alleged false statements to a federal agency concerning voluntary disclosure of transmission of potentially sensitive information to the People's Republic of China
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