Opinion ID: 419200
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Text: 3 Shortly after appellant Yermian was hired as an engineer by Galton Industries, Inc. (Galton) of Hawthorne, California, Galton asked Yermian to fill out a personnel security form. In filling out the form, Yermian provided the company with false information as to his job history and criminal record. At a later date, Galton presented Yermian with a typed version of the form, which Yermian signed, allegedly without carefully re-reading it. A notice at the bottom of the typed form warned that a false representation would be a violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 and elaborated on the possible penalty for such a violation. 4 Galton subsequently sent the form to the Department of Defense, pursuant to a routine FBI security check necessitated by the nature of Galton's work. The FBI discovered that some of Yermian's statements were false and denied Yermian a security clearance. Confronted with the reasons for the denial of his security clearance, Yermian immediately conceded that he had lied. 5