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For example, if you lie to your employer on your time and attendance records and, unbeknownst to you, he submits your records, along with those of other employe
by dfranke 15y ago
For example, if you lie to your employer on your time and attendance records and, unbeknownst to you, he submits your records, along with those of other employees, to the federal government pursuant to some regulatory duty, you could be criminally liable.
Is there anything in the law that makes the "pursuant to some regulatory duty" relevant here? For example, if you wrote something on Wikipedia that you knew was inaccurate, and years later a federal official read it and found it somehow relevant to his job, would you theoretically be breaking this law?
- droithomme 15y agoIANALOAJ, but yes, technically that would be a crime in those circumstances. It seems unlikely you'd be prosecuted of course but who can say?
- rprasad 15y agoYes. It's not criminally illegal to lie to your employer about hours worked. On the other hand, if you're lying to your employer about hours worked on a government contract, that may be a different story. What most armchair lawyers forget (or never learned) is that intent is a fundemental element for any crime involving more than token (i.e., small fine) punishment. In the example above, if you don't intend to defraud the federal government when lying to your lawyer, it's not a crime.