perjury

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A baseball player lied to Congress and got charged with perjury.

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criminal offense of making false statements under oath

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noun

criminal offense of making false statements under oath

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noun

criminal offense of making false statements under oath

Example sentences

A baseball player lied to Congress and got charged with perjury.

He didn't want to claim, under penalty of perjury, that he own the copyrights?

Isn't what he did so obviously perjury?The America of 2013 is absolute bullshit.

I still don't understand how a bot can sign a takedown request that is executed under the penalty of perjury and why no one has gone after misfilings legally.

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

I ask because I am interested in your product, but I do not want to do business with any bank that repeatedly forecloses on houses for which it holds no mortgage, hires mercenaries to commit the crime of breaking and entering, has a chief underwriter who has testified "Defective mortgages increased during 2007 to over 80 percent of production," or has admitted to over 100,000 instances of perjury.