If Hillary Clinton thinks she can avoid a federal prison sentence in her illegal email case, the FBI has two words for her.
Martha Stewart.
“The FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails, with agents exploring whether multiple statements violate a federal false statements statute, according to intelligence sources familiar with the ongoing case,” Fox News reports.
“Fox News is told agents are looking at U.S. Code 18, Section 1001, which pertains to “materially false” statements given either in writing, orally or through a third party. Violations also include pressuring a third party to conspire in a cover-up. Each felony violation is subject to five years in prison,” Fox News reports.
It’s the same charge that landed Martha Stewart in a federal prison. In 2004, Stewart was convicted and sentenced to five months in a federal prison for giving misleading statements to federal agents investigating a stock transaction.
Unlike perjury, Clinton could be convicted if she misled or gave false information to FBI agents at any time, even if she was not under oath.
According to Fox:
The section of the criminal code being explored is known as “statements or entries generally,” and can be applied when an individual makes misleading or false statements causing federal agents to expend additional resources and time. In this case, legal experts as well as a former FBI agent said, Section 1001 could apply if Clinton, her aides or attorney were not forthcoming with FBI agents about her emails, classification and whether only non-government records were destroyed. It is not publicly known who may have been interviewed.
If the FBI has interviewed, or will interview, Clinton at any time, and if any of her statements are false, she could be subject to prosecution and imprisonment.
AAN Staff
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