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Diana Lloyd and Kevin Ma on Obstructing an Investigation

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Diana Lloyd and Kevin Ma wrote “High Court To Go Fishing For Answers In Anti-Shredding Case” in White Collar Law360 where they discuss the Yates v. United States case and its testing the limits of 18 USC § 1519, the Sarbanes-Oxley provision that imposes criminal liability on anyone who “knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object” with the intent to impede or obstruct an investigation.  This also appeared in the Securities, Food & Beverage, Appellate and Florida sections of Law360