Such ruses include altering documents related to the cargo's country of origin or presenting undervalued invoices.
Wilfully altering documents relating to a trade union's financial affairs with intent to falsify or their destruction, mutilation or falsification is punishable by a 10 year disqualification.
Mr. Mastromarino and his co-defendants are charged with harvesting tissue without consent and with altering documents to describe donors as younger and free of communicable disease.
The law also brings in new penalties for corporate fraud and prison terms of up to 20 years for destroying or altering documents sought in federal investigations.
But the foreclosure ended up among 1,700 temporarily halted in Chicago when the lawyers for the bank admitted to altering documents.
She was worried, she said, that she could not get through the day without crying, after the jury found Andersen guilty of obstruction of justice for altering documents related to Enron.
In Portland next week, the Beavers, the Class AAA affiliate of the San Diego Padres, will sponsor "Arthur Andersen Appreciation Night" to poke fun at the accounting firm convicted of obstruction of justice last month for shredding and altering documents related to an investigation into energy trading company Enron's complex accounting practices.
By March 10, the Financial Ministry admitted to altering documents relating to the sale.
But, beyond allegations that North or others may have obstructed justice by destroying and altering documents related to the Iran and contra dealings, most specific areas of investigation remain secret.
I can't believe I'd been so careless, so short-sighted, to cast such a life-altering document -- my own Magna Carta or Bill of Rights -- into the wastepaper basket.
In this job, there are handwriting comparisons, signature comparisons, questionable cheques, altered documents.
