{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s157","title":18,"num":"\u00a7\u202f157.","heading":"Bankruptcy fraud","text":"\u00a7\u202f157.\nBankruptcy fraud\nA person who, having devised or intending to devise a scheme or artifice to defraud and for the purpose of executing or concealing such a scheme or artifice or attempting to do so\u2014\n(1) files a petition under title 11, including a fraudulent involuntary petition under section 303 of such title;\n(2) files a document in a proceeding under title 11; or\n(3) makes a false or fraudulent representation, claim, or promise concerning or in relation to a proceeding under title 11, at any time before or after the filing of the petition, or in relation to a proceeding falsely asserted to be pending under such title,\nshall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t18/s157.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s157","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f157."},{"t":"heading","text":"Bankruptcy fraud","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"A person who, having devised or intending to devise a scheme or artifice to defraud and for the purpose of executing or concealing such a scheme or artifice or attempting to do so\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t18/s157/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" files a petition under title 11, including a fraudulent involuntary petition under section 303 of such title;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t18/s157/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" files a document in a proceeding under title 11; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t18/s157/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" makes a false or fraudulent representation, claim, or promise concerning or in relation to a proceeding under title 11, at any time before or after the filing of the petition, or in relation to a proceeding falsely asserted to be pending under such title,","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n\n"},{"t":"continuation","text":"shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.","tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}