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Podcast: Supreme Court Decision Syllabus (SCOTUS Podcast)
Episode: Thompson v. United States (Criminal / False Statement)
Description: Send us Fan MailIn Thompson v. United States the Supreme Court held that 18 U.S.C. §1014, which prohibits “knowingly mak[ing] any false statement” to influence the FDIC’s actions on a loan, does not extend to statements that are merely misleading but not technically false.Patrick Thompson, a former Chicago Alderman, was charged under §1014 after disputing his loan balance in conversations with FDIC contractors, stating he had only borrowed $110,000 when in fact he had borrowed $219,000 in total. A jury convicted him, and the lower courts upheld the conviction on the basis that his statemen...