CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1518                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 73 - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

HEAD

    Sec. 1518. Obstruction of criminal investigations of health care
      offenses

STATUTE

      (a) Whoever willfully prevents, obstructs, misleads, delays or
    attempts to prevent, obstruct, mislead, or delay the communication
    of information or records relating to a violation of a Federal
    health care offense to a criminal investigator shall be fined under
    this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
      (b) As used in this section the term "criminal investigator"
    means any individual duly authorized by a department, agency, or
    armed force of the United States to conduct or engage in
    investigations for prosecutions for violations of health care
    offenses.

SOURCE

    (Added Pub. L. 104-191, title II, Sec. 245(a), Aug. 21, 1996, 110
    Stat. 2017.)
Customized queries of TRAC's data TRAC FBI Web Site TRAC DEA Web Site TRAC Immigration Web Site TRAC DHS Web Site TRAC IRS Web Site TRAC ATF Web Site TRAC Reports Web Site
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2010
TRAC Web Site