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[CITE: 18USC157]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                          CHAPTER 9--BANKRUPTCY
 
Sec. 157. Bankruptcy fraud

    A person who, having devised or intending to devise a scheme or 
artifice to defraud and for the purpose of executing or concealing such 
a scheme or artifice or attempting to do so--
        (1) files a petition under title 11;
        (2) files a document in a proceeding under title 11; or
        (3) makes a false or fraudulent representation, claim, or 
    promise concerning or in relation to a proceeding under title 11, at 
    any time before or after the filing of the petition, or in relation 
    to a proceeding falsely asserted to be pending under such title,

shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or 
both.

(Added Pub. L. 103-394, title III, Sec. 312(a)(1)(B), Oct. 22,