§13106 Failure to File or Filing False Reports

Summary

The Attorney General can sue anyone in federal court who intentionally lies on or intentionally fails to file reports they must send under section 13104. A court can make that person pay up to $50,000. It is a crime to lie on those reports or to willfully not file them. If someone lies, they can be fined under federal criminal law (Title 18), put in jail for up to 1 year, or both. If someone willfully fails to file, they can be fined under Title 18. Agency heads, the Secretaries concerned, the Office of Government Ethics, congressional ethics committees, and the Judicial Conference must send names to the Attorney General if they have good reason to think someone willfully lied or didn’t file. The Judicial Conference must also tell the judicial council for that person’s circuit. The President, the Vice President, agency heads, OPM, congressional ethics committees, and the Judicial Conference may take personnel or other actions allowed by law. If a report is filed more than 30 days after the later of the regular deadline or the end of an extension, a filing fee can apply; the supervising ethics office may waive that fee in extraordinary circumstances.