18 U.S.C. § 1519 — statute detail

18 U.S.C. § 1519

destruction of records

Obstruction

Sarbanes-Oxley anti-shredding provision: punishes knowingly destroying or falsifying records to obstruct a federal investigation.

5

documents charge this statute

1

associated schemes

0

structural heuristics

scheme mix in corpus: Accounting / Disclosure Fraud 2FCPA Violation 1Non-Corporate 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 5

CEO, CFO, COO Charged In Connection With Billion-Dollar Collapse Of Tricolor Auto press_release accounting-fraud Southern District of New York 2025-12-17 Telefonica Dpa And Associated Documents pdf fcpa Southern District of New York 2024-11-08 Two Men Found Guilty Of Wire Fraud And Money Laundering In Connection With Telemarketing Fraud Scheme Targeting The Elderly press_release non-corporate Southern District of New York 2018-11-07 George B. Franz III litigation_release obstruction Northern District of Ohio 2014-09-30 In re DAVID M. TAMMAN pdf accounting-fraud 2011-01-28