Falsifying or Tampering with Records

Falsifying or Tampering with Records

In New Jersey, a charge of Falsifying or Tampering with Records is serious. The act states:

N.J.S.A. 2C:21-4. Falsifying or Tampering with Records. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, a person commits a crime of the fourth degree if he falsifies, destroys, removes, conceals any writing or record, or utters any writing or record knowing that it contains a false statement or information, with purpose to deceive or injure anyone or to conceal any wrongdoing.

b. Issuing a false financial statement. A person is guilty of issuing a false financial statement, a crime of the third degree, when, with purpose to deceive or injure anyone or to conceal any wrongdoing; he by oath or affirmation:

(1) Knowingly makes or utters a written instrument which purports to describe the financial condition or ability to pay of some person and which is inaccurate in some substantial respect; or

(2) Represents in writing that a written instrument purporting to describe a person's financial condition or ability to pay as of a prior date is accurate with respect to such person's current financial condition or ability to pay, whereas, he knows it is substantially inaccurate in that respect.

SOURCE. N.J.S. 2A:91-3; 2A:91-5 to 2A:91-8; 2A:111-9 to 2A:111-12; C. 2A:111-39 (1968, c. 260); N.J.S. 2A:122-3; Model Penal Code: 224.4. Amended. L. 1981, c. 290, §21.

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