18 U.S.C. § 1010 : US Code - Section 1010: Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Administration transactions

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1010 : US Code - Section 1010: Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Administration transactions

Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining any loan or advance of
credit from any person, partnership, association, or corporation
with the intent that such loan or advance of credit shall be
offered to or accepted by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development for insurance, or for the purpose of obtaining any
extension or renewal of any loan, advance of credit, or mortgage
insured by such Department, or the acceptance, release, or
substitution of any security on such a loan, advance of credit, or
for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of such
Department, makes, passes, utters, or publishes any statement,
knowing the same to be false, or alters, forges, or counterfeits
any instrument, paper, or document, or utters, publishes, or passes
as true any instrument, paper, or document, knowing it to have been
altered, forged, or counterfeited, or willfully overvalues any
security, asset, or income, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than two years, or both.