Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates November 2024 No. 7 Vol. 27
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The Jan. 6 Prosecutions

Charging Defendants With Obstruction of an Official Proceeding

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Is the Federal Law That Prohibits the Obstruction of Official Proceedings Limited to Acts That Tamper With Evidence?

In the wake of the revelations of widespread accounting fraud and corruption involving the Enron energy company in 2002, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley financial reform legislation. One provision of the law made it a crime to destroy evidence or to obstruct or impede any official proceeding….

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