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Criminal Law and False Reports to Governments

  • Writer: Kirk Hartley
    Kirk Hartley
  • Nov 26, 2013
  • 1 min read

A Chicago area reminder that criminal law does apply to filing false reports with the federal government. In this instance, a federal judge decided not to imprison Crestwood village officials who filed false reports about village use of contaminated water. The target defendant avoided prosecution and jail because of proven dementia.

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Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”

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