### **CHAPTER 47—FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS**

Sec.
1001.
Statements or entries generally.
1002.
Possession of false papers to defraud United States.
1003.
Demands against the United States.
1004.
Certification of checks.
1005.
Bank entries, reports and transactions.
1006.
Federal credit institution entries, reports and transactions.
1007.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation transactions.
[1008, 1009. Repealed.]
1010.
Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Administration transactions.
1011.
Federal land bank mortgage transactions.
1012.
Department of Housing and Urban Development transactions.
1013.
Farm loan bonds and credit bank debentures.
1014.
Loan and credit applications generally; renewals and discounts; crop insurance.
1015.
Naturalization, citizenship or alien registry.
1016.
Acknowledgment of appearance or oath.
1017.
Government seals wrongfully used and instruments wrongfully sealed.
1018.
Official certificates or writings.
1019.
Certificates by consular officers.
1020.
Highway projects.
1021.
Title records.
1022.
Delivery of certificate, voucher, receipt for military or naval property.
1023.
Insufficient delivery of money or property for military or naval service.
1024.
Purchase or receipt of military, naval, or veteran's facilities property.
1025.
False pretenses on high seas and other waters.
1026.
Compromise, adjustment, or cancellation of farm indebtedness.
1027.
False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
1028.
Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents and information. 1

1028A.
Aggravated identity theft.
1029.
Fraud and related activity in connection with access devices.
1030.
Fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
1031.
Major fraud against the United States.
1032.
Concealment of assets from conservator, receiver, or liquidating agent of financial institution. 2

1033.
Crimes by or affecting persons engaged in the business of insurance whose activities affect interstate commerce.
1034.
Civil penalties and injunctions for violations of section 1033.
1035.
False statements relating to health care matters.
1036.
Entry by false pretenses to any real property, vessel, or aircraft of the United States or secure area of any airport or seaport.
1037.
Fraud and related activity in connection with electronic mail.
1038.
False information and hoaxes.
1039.
Fraud and related activity in connection with obtaining confidential phone records information of a covered entity.
1040.
Fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits.

#### **Editorial Notes**

#### Amendments

**2008**—Pub. L. 110–179, §2(b), Jan. 7, 2008, 121 Stat. 2557, added item 1040.

**2007**—Pub. L. 109–476, §3(b), Jan. 12, 2007, 120 Stat. 3571, added item 1039.

**2006**—Pub. L. 109–177, title III, §302(b), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 233, inserted "or seaport" at end of item 1036.

**2004**—Pub. L. 108–458, title VI, §6702(b), Dec. 17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3766, added item 1038.

Pub. L. 108–275, §2(b), July 15, 2004, 118 Stat. 832, added item 1028A.

**2003**—Pub. L. 108–187, §4(a)(2), Dec. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 2705, added item 1037.

**2000**—Pub. L. 106–547, §2(b), Dec. 19, 2000, 114 Stat. 2739, added item 1036.

**1998**—Pub. L. 105–318, §3(h)(2), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 3009, inserted "and information" at end of item 1028.

**1996**—Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §601(f)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3500, substituted "veteran's facilities" for "veterans' facilities" in item 1024.

Pub. L. 104–191, title II, §244(b), Aug. 21, 1996, 110 Stat. 2017, added item 1035.

**1994**—Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, §320603(b), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2118, added items 1033 and 1034.

**1990**—Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, §2501(b), title XXXV, §3532, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4860, 4925, inserted a period after "1031" and added item 1032.

**1989**—Pub. L. 101–73, title IX, §§961(g)(2), 962(a)(4), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 500, 502, struck out item 1008 "Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation transactions" and item 1009 "Rumors regarding Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation".

**1988**—Pub. L. 100–700, §2(c), Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4632, added item 1031.

**1984**—Pub. L. 98–473, title II, §§1602(b), 2102(b), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2184, 2192, added items 1029 and 1030.

**1982**—Pub. L. 97–398, §3, Dec. 31, 1982, 96 Stat. 2010, added item 1028.

**1974**—Pub. L. 93–406, title I, §112(a)(2)(B)(iii), formerly §111(a)(2)(B)(iii), Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 852, renumbered §112(a)(2)(B)(iii), Pub. L. 117–328, div. T, title III, §320(a)(1), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5354, substituted "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974" for "Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act" in item 1027.

**1967**—Pub. L. 90–19, §24(e), May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 28, included "Department of Housing and Urban Development" in item 1010, and substituted the same for "Public Housing Administration" in item 1012.

**1962**—Pub. L. 87–420, §17(d), Mar. 20, 1962, 76 Stat. 42, added item 1027.

**1951**—Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, §25, 65 Stat. 720, substituted "Public Housing Administration" for "United States Housing Authority" in item 1012.

**1949**—Act May 24, 1949, ch. 139, §§18, 19, 63 Stat. 92, corrected spelling in item 1012 and substituted "officers" for "offices" in item 1019.

1  Section catchline amended by Pub. L. 108–21 without corresponding amendment of chapter analysis.

2  Section catchline amended by Pub. L. 111–203 without corresponding amendment of chapter analysis.