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PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)

7. Here's what I found in a quick search!

Reply to greymattermom (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 7, 2018, 06:10 AM

Oct 2018

Section 1621 covers general perjury, and stipulates that anyone who "willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true" is guilty of perjury and shall be fined or imprisoned up to five years, or both.

And this:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/penalty-for-lying-to-congress/index.html

If the court rules that lying to Congress is OK for Republicans, I suspect America's streets will be on fire.