18 U.S.C. § 2071 : US Code - Section 2071: Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally

Search 18 U.S.C. § 2071 : US Code - Section 2071: Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally

(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes,
mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with
intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map,
book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any
clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any
public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United
States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding,
map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and
unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or
destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office
and be disqualified from holding any office under the United
States. As used in this subsection, the term "office" does not
include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the
Armed Forces of the United States.