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Tampering with evidence, or evidence tampering, is an act in which a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation (usually) by a law-enforcement, governmental, or regulatory authority. [1] It is a criminal offense in many jurisdictions. [2]
In federal law, crimes constituting obstruction of justice are defined primarily in Chapter 73 of Title 18 of the United States Code. [7] [8] This chapter contains provisions covering various specific crimes such as witness tampering and retaliation, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, assault on a process server, and theft of court ...
NXIVM sex cult founder Keith Raniere, 64, is serving a 120-year sentence at a federal prison in Tuscon, Arizona. Prosecutors said he recruited women and girls into a sex cult disguised as a self ...
Reynaldo Salinas Cruz, Aguilar’s husband, has been charged with tampering with evidence in her death. Both Salinas Cruz, 40, and Rodas had been held on unrelated federal charges.
Federal prosecutors estimate that the ruling could affect about 250 of the roughly 1,400 people who were charged in the Capitol attack. About 350 people were charged under the obstructing an official proceeding provision, for which prosecutors are now required to demonstrate an evidence-tampering related motive.
Aguilar's husband, 40-year-old Reynaldo Salinas Cruz, was charged with tampering with evidence, police said. Both Rodas and Cruz had already been in federal custody on unrelated charges at the ...
He was convicted of sexually assaulting two children and tampering with evidence. The correctional facility refused to honor an ICE detainer request and released him into the public.
[3] Witness tampering is a crime even if a proceeding is not actually pending, [3] [2] and even if the testimony sought to be influenced, delayed, or prevented would not be admissible in evidence. [2] Section 1512 also provides that the federal government has extraterritorial jurisdiction to prosecute the offenses described by the section. [2] [3]