MISREPRESENTATIONS

Material Fact Deception. "Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both." 18 USC § 1001.

Official Certificates or Writings. "Official certificates or writings. - Whoever, being a public officer or other person authorized by any law of the United States to make or give a certificate or other writing, knowingly makes and delivers as true such a certificate or writing, containing any statement which he knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not elsewhere expressly provided bv law, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both." 18 U.S.C. § 1018

False Statements at a Press Conference. - Buckley v. Fitzsimmons, 509 US 259 (1993), 125 LEd2d 209, 113 SCt___ (1993) (Prosecutors held not absolutely immune from 42 USCS §1983 damages claims alleging; fabrication of evidence during preliminary investigation and making of false statements at a press conference.)

42 USCS §1983 - United States Code, Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare, Chapter 21 - Civil Rights, Subchapter I - Generally, Section 1983. Civil action for deprivation of rights: "Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia."