Or is it like making a false filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission?
One client, John Mikutowicz, 51, of Mashpee, Mass., the owner of AGM Marine Inc., which builds piers and bridges in New England, has been convicted of tax evasion and false filing.
And many other activities -- like submitting a false filing with a government agency or passing a bank teller a note reading, "This is a stickup" -- are both expressive and illegal.
The jury, in United States District Court in Manhattan, convicted the former executive, Mark P. Kaiser, of securities fraud, conspiracy and false filing, charges that could carry a sentence as long as life in prison.
To underscore how easy it is to create false files, someone photo-shopped the state security logo onto a document and then burned it along the edges before slapping it up online.
Myers pleaded guilty last month to false filing of documents with securities regulators, conspiracy to commit fraud and securities fraud; Sullivan was arrested and indicted in August for allegedly masterminding the scheme, but is fighting the charges.
This has also been recommended to avoid false filing of accreditation data by hospitals [ 20].
The four officers -- Matt Hornung, 29; Clarence Mabanag, 35; Jude Siapno, 32; and Francisco Vasquez, 44 -- were indicted this month on a total of more than 60 charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, kidnapping, assault, filing false police reports, filing false documents and making false arrests.
"If you're talking about filing false documents and filing false notarizations, do you really think that the U.S. Attorney would find it too difficult to prosecute?" The office of Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan has routinely brought charges involving forgery and filing false documents against smaller targets.
Investigators found "tens of thousands" of false records filed on behalf of big mortgage servicers, he said.
