18 U.S.C. § 1505 — statute detail

18 U.S.C. § 1505

obstruction of agency proceeding

Obstruction

Criminalizes obstruction of a pending proceeding before a federal agency or department (e.g. an SEC investigation).

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documents charge this statute

1

associated schemes

0

structural heuristics

scheme mix in corpus: Insider Trading 1Accounting / Disclosure Fraud 1Obstruction of Justice 1

Fraud schemes charged under this statute

Obstruction of Justice n/a

Evidence tampering, witness tampering, false statements to investigators.

rule / inferenceNon-securities — no EDGAR extraction.

Documents citing this statute 3

Steven B. Hart litigation_release insider-trading Southern District of New York 2015-02-18 Don W. Watson, Edward W. O’Brien, and Gary M. Opper litigation_release accounting-fraud District of Arizona 2012-04-18 Patrick H. McCarthy litigation_release obstruction Eastern District of Pennsylvania 2001-12-17