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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1505. Obstruction 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 or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both.
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