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title: "18 U.S.C. § 1518"
description: "Obstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses"
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title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
chapter_number: "73"
chapter_name: "OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE"
section: "1518"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1518"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 1518 - Obstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses
## Text
(a) Whoever willfully prevents, obstructs, misleads, delays or attempts to prevent, obstruct, mislead, or delay the communication of information or records relating to a violation of a Federal health care offense to a criminal investigator shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) As used in this section the term “criminal investigator” means any individual duly authorized by a department, agency, or armed force of the United States to conduct or engage in investigations for prosecutions for violations of health care offenses.
(Added Pub. L. 104191, title II, § 245(a), Aug. 21, 1996, 110 Stat. 2017.)