18 U.S.C. § 1732 : US Code - Section 1732: Approval of bond or sureties by postmaster

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1732 : US Code - Section 1732: Approval of bond or sureties by postmaster

Whoever, being a postmaster, affixes his signature to the
approval of any bond of a bidder, or to the certificate of
sufficiency of sureties in any contract, before the said bond or
contract is signed by the bidder or contractor and his sureties, or
knowingly, or without the exercise of due diligence, approves any
bond of a bidder with insufficient sureties, or knowingly makes any
false or fraudulent certificate, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be dismissed
from office and disqualified from holding the office of postmaster.