Obstruction of justice (which is not actually a single thing, really) generally deals with doing this when there is an investigation in progress. See http://ww

Obstruction of justice (which is not actually a single thing, really) generally deals with doing this when there is an investigation in progress. See http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34303.pdf http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34303.pdf for more details of the federal statutes. Anticipatory obstruction is kind of a possible thing under SOX, but otherwise, no.