Possible violations of the following statutes are investigated by the United States Diplomatic Security Service:
- 18 USC 1541 Issuance Without Authority
- 18 USC 1542 False Statement in Application and Use of Passport
- 18 USC 1543 Forgery or False Use of Passport
- 18 USC 1544 Misuse of Passport
- 18 USC 1546 Fraud and Misuse of Visas, Permits, and Other Documents
- 18 USC 371 Conspiracy to Commit Offense or to Defraud the United States
- 18 USC 911 False Claim to Citizenship
- 18 USC 1028 Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Identification Documents and Information
Statutes do not specify that the passport must be a US passport.
Famous quotes containing the words passport and/or fraud:
“Whenever [Leonard Bernstein] entered or exited a country he would fill in on his passport form not composer or conductor, but musician. Of course people in the press spent a lot of Lenny’s life telling him what he should have done; he should have been a concert pianist, he should have composed more.... And people wouldn’t let him live his own life. But he created his own career, in his own image.”
—John Mauceri (b. 1945)
“There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?—We ask triumphantly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)