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falsification

fal suh fuh kay shuhn

  • n  any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
  • n  a willful perversion of facts
  • n  the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
  • n  the act of determining that something is false

  • After all, Party-Member Winston Smith was one of the Ministry of Truth's most trusted forgers; he had always flung himself heart soul into the falsification of government .
  • The charges included conspiracy, securities fraud, investment-adviser fraud, falsification of books, mail fraud, wire fraud, international money-laundering, perjury and federal .
  • It is the subject of a federal investigation into alleged falsification of maintenance records in its Oakland, Calif.
News & Articles

  • Environmental Lab Operator Found Guilty of Falsifying Records on Industrial Wastewater
    The owner and sole operator of an environmental laboratory was found guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi of all counts of a federal indictment charging falsification of records and obstructing a federal criminal investigation. Tennie White, owner, operator and manager of Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories Inc., was charged in a three-count felony ...
    June 13, 2013 - EHS Today
  • Municipal Court
    CASES CALLED WEDNESDAY INCLUDED: Rodney Peters, 51, of Dayton, marked lanes, dismissed. Terry L. Rybicki, 57, of 2255 Manhattan Blvd., OVI, guilty, three days jail with three days suspended, six months driver’s license suspension, fined $375. Joseph Charles Spurgeon, 25, of 1235 Montego St., OVI, falsification, obstructing official business, dismissed. Harold D. Warner, 44, of 935 Ogden Road ...
    June 13, 2013 - Springfield News-Sun
  • Driver arrested for lying about hit-and-run
    A man who told police that he was the victim of a hit-and-run crash ended up being arrested for lying to police. Ryan Nolan, 38, was arrested for falsification and obstructing official business Monday evening because he filed a false police report about the crash. Once at the jail it was discovered that he had methamphetamine hidden on his person so a charge of possession of drugs was added as ...
    June 11, 2013 - WHIO-TV 7 Dayton
Quotes

  • John McCain in Washington Post
    My friends, it's a direct falsification, and I'm sorry that political campaigns have to deteriorate in this fashion,McCain said. "Because there's legitimate differences between myself and Senator Obama and Senator Clinton on what we should...
  • Floyd Landis in Brooks Bulletin
    Based on this behaviour, we are looking at potentially deliberate falsification of results and the willful destruction of evidence,Landis said.
  • Hank Brown in Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
    The individual did not express regret, did not apologize, did not indicate a willingness to refrain from this type of falsification in the future,Brown said.

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