This statute makes it a crime for falsifying, concealing, or covering up material facts surrounding a civil rights investigation, or making false statements, representations, or writings.

This law prohibits a person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to make false statements or misrepresentations surrounding their individual or collective actions, during a civil rights investigation. It has been successfully applied to civil rights investigations involving the loss of life, where the subjects of the investigation lied to protect their careers and those of other co-conspirators.

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to five years or both.

Hate Crimes - Color of Law/Police Misconduct - Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances
Involuntary Servitude/Slavery and Human Trafficking - Civil Rights Statutes