California · Financial Code

FIN §14759: Any officer, director, employee, or agent of any credit union who willfully makes a false or untrue entry in any book, record, report, statement concerning the business or affairs of the credit union,

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

Credit union officers, directors, employees, or agents who willfully make false entries, omit entries, or destroy records with intent to deceive examiners or officials commit a felony.

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Any officer, director, employee, or agent of any credit union who willfully makes a false or untrue entry in any book, record, report, statement concerning the business or affairs of the credit union, or statement of condition or in connection with any transaction of the credit union with intent to deceive any officer or director thereof, or with intent to deceive any agent or examiner, whether private or public, employed or lawfully appointed to examine into the credit union’s condition or to examine into any of the credit union’s affairs or transactions, or with intent to deceive any public officer, office, or board to which the credit union is required by law to report or which has authority by law to examine into the credit union’s affairs or transactions or to examine into any of the credit union’s affairs or transactions or who, with like intent, willfully omits to make a new entry of any matter particularly pertaining to the business, property, condition, affairs, transactions, assets, or accounts of the credit union in any book, record, report, or statement of the credit union, or who with like intent alters, abstracts, conceals, or destroys any book, record, report, or statement of the credit union made, written, or kept, or required to be made, written, or kept by him or her or under his or her direction, is guilty of a felony.

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