Prosecutable Federal Offenses
1. Title 18 USC 402 Contempt might include
practicing, vending, or dispensing federal law without license or actual contempt of Court
2. Title 18 USC 1509 Obstruction of Court ORDER;
Whoever, by threats or force, willfully prevents, obstructs, impedes, or interferes with, or willfully attempts to prevent, obstruct, impede, or
interfere with, the due exercise of rights or the performance of duties under any order, judgment, or decree of a court of the United States, shall
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. No injunctive or other civil relief against the conduct made criminal by
this section shall be denied on the ground that such conduct is a crime
3. Title 18 USC 913 Impersonator Making Arrest
Whoever falsely represents himself to be an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, and in such assumed character arrests or
detains any person or in any manner searches the person, buildings, or other property of any person, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
4. Title 18 USC 371 Conspiracy to Committ an Offense To defraud the United States If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed
the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor.
5. Title 18 USC 1701 Obstruction of Mail Generally
Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from
any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail
carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry
into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes,
embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Prosecutable Federal Offenses
6. Title 18 USC 1512 Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant (
(b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward
another person, with intent to— (1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding; (2) cause or induce any person to—
(A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding; (B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object
with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; (C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a
witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or (D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person
has been summoned by legal process; or shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
7. Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory,
Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution
or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason
of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year,
or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or
threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;
and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap,
aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or
imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
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