Chapter 73, Section 1505 · 18 U.S.C. Chapter 73 — OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

1505Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees#

Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress— Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.

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an officer of a financial institution
means an officer, director, partner, employee, agent, or attorney of or for a financial institution;
bodily injury
means—
corruptly
means acting with an improper purpose, personally or by influencing another, including making a false or misleading statement, or withholding, concealing, altering, or destroying a document or other information.
course of conduct
means a series of acts over a period of time, however short, indicating a continuity of purpose;
criminal investigator
means any individual duly authorized by a department, agency, or armed force of the United States to conduct or engage in investigations of or prosecutions for violations of the criminal laws of the United States.
Federal auditor
means any person employed on a full- or part-time or contractual basis to perform an audit or a quality assurance inspection for or on behalf of the United States;
gambling
includes but is not limited to pool-selling, bookmaking, maintaining slot machines, roulette wheels, or dice tables, and conducting lotteries, policy, bolita or numbers games, or selling chances therein.
harassment
means a serious act or course of conduct directed at a specific person that—
illegal gambling business
means a gambling business which—
immediate family member
has the meaning given that term in section 115 and includes grandchildren;
in any 1 year period
has the meaning given to the term “in any one-year period” in section 666.
intimidation
means a serious act or course of conduct directed at a specific person that—
law enforcement officer
means an officer or employee of the Federal Government, or a person authorized to act for or on behalf of the Federal Government or serving the Federal Government as an adviser or consultant—
misleading conduct
means—
official proceeding
means—
physical force
means physical action against another, and includes confinement;
restricted personal information
has the meaning give 1 that term in section 119;
serious act
means a single act of threatening, retaliatory, harassing, or violent conduct that is reasonably likely to influence the willingness of a victim or witness to testify or participate in a Federal criminal case or investigation;
specific person
means a victim or witness in a Federal criminal case or investigation, and includes an immediate family member of such a victim or witness.
State
means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession of the United States.
subpoena for records
means a Federal grand jury subpoena, a subpoena issued under section 3486 of this title, or an order or subpoena issued in accordance with section 3512 of this title, section 5318 of title 31, or section 1782 of title 28, for customer records that has been served relating to a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate—