[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR702.13]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VII--COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

 

PART 702_RULES ON HEARINGS, REPORTS, AND MEETINGS OF THE COMMISSION

--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart A_Hearings and Reports

 

Sec. 702.13  Intimidation of witnesses.



    Witnesses at Commission proceedings are protected by the provisions 

of 18 U.S.C. 1505, which provide that whoever, with intent to avoid, 

evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any 

civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust 

Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any 

place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other 

means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written 

interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; 

or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or whoever corruptly, 

or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication 

influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, 

or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any 

pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the 

United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry 

under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, 

or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress 

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, 

or both.