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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1521                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

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

HEAD

    Sec. 1521. Retaliating against a Federal judge or Federal law
      enforcement officer by false claim or slander of title

STATUTE

      Whoever files, attempts to file, or conspires to file, in any
    public record or in any private record which is generally available
    to the public, any false lien or encumbrance against the real or
    personal property of an individual described in section 1114, on
    account of the performance of official duties by that individual,
    knowing or having reason to know that such lien or encumbrance is
    false or contains any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
    statement or representation, shall be fined under this title or
    imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.

SOURCE

    (Added Pub. L. 110-177, title II, Sec. 201(a), Jan. 7, 2008, 121
    Stat. 2535.)