Once again, you seem to be missing the obvious problem here, either because you are unable to issue spot when it comes to the law, or because you are the dumbest criminal in the universe.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:45 pmSo the OP is going to jail then?Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 12:32 pmAre you aware that making false statements on federal forms constitutes the felony offense of perjury? The FBI conducts a thorough background investigation that includes in-person or telephonic interviews of people you are randomly acquainted with--not just your buddies who you listed as references. This is such a dumb statement that it amazes me someone with a law degree actually wrote it.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 11:29 pmYeah, the answer here is don’t disclose. Lawyers are good to ask for legal advice, but not so much for common sense…
It boggles my mind the amount of degeneracy that goes on among the partners and clients in big law. I guess those partners, as leaders of our profession, should (and of course do) voluntarily disclose their poor actions to the firm because it’s the right thing to do?
If OP was a pot head, maybe something to worry about. Not an occasional lark on a trip to Colorado.
Not disclosing bad acts to your law firm is not a criminal offense. Federal statutes do not criminalize your decisions to lie to your law firm partners, or your spouse, or the Pope for that matter. They do criminalize false statements on federal forms or to federal investigators. This is where you seem to be missing the legal issue, since you're conflating law firm conduct with federal false statements as though they're the same thing. No one's putting you in jail for lying to grandma, dude. Lying on a form is different.
The reason you seem to be an incredibly dumb criminal is that you don't seem to appreciate how easy it is to catch someone lying about this subject. The FBI is the agency that conducts background investigations into AUSA hires. They knock on actual doors in your neighborhood. They will call your ex-girlfriend. They will talk to that one kid you got into a fight with your senior year in high school. They are good at their job and catching young law graduates who are really dumb at being criminals is super easy for them compared to what they normally do. The FBI agents doing these checks, in fact, are typically semi-retired agents who are doing this after long careers of catching smart criminals.
It is really disturbing that all of this has to be explained to someone who presumably has a college education and has also gone to law school.