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Originally Posted by Rochard
You can go to jail for this:
Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before ? any committee of either House of Congress, willfully makes default ? shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months.
That is a minimum of one month in jail.
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OK back to reality AGAIN.
What Could Happen to Clintonâ??s IT Aide Who Totally Ignored Congressional Subpoena | Law News Hillary Clinton's IT director who set her server up was ordered by congress via a subpoena to turn over all the documents and appear in front of them. He did neither, he is not in jail he was not fined, again, nothing happened. Eric Holder held in contempt in 2012, Lois lerner in 2014. Do you see them in jail? Susan Rice this year. Not in jail either.
2 U.S. Code § 194 provides, in part:
Whenever a witness summoned as mentioned in section 192 of this title fails to appear to testify or fails to produce any books, papers, rechaords, or documents, as required ? and the fact of such failure or failures is reported to either House while Congress is in session or when Congress is not in session, a statement of fact constituting such failure is reported to and filed with ? the Speaker of the House, it shall be the duty of the said ? Speaker of the House ? to certify, and he shall so certify, the statement of facts aforesaid under the seal of ? the House ? to the appropriate United States attorney, whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action.
Despite the apparent mandatory language in the statute (shall), two recent high-profile contempt resolution referral cases essentially show the statute does not operate that way. As such, Congress has had great difficulty obtaining a contempt conviction in court.
I'm disappointed in you Rochard, you are supposed to be an ex-marine who knows the law and knows about security issues and how gov't works. No one has been punished via the legal method described above for over 80 years. No one will be again here. Congress has to go thru a series of actions thru the local state DA and the process takes over a year and usually like in Eric Holder's case, the judge will decline any further proceedings.
Holder was ordered to turn over all documents of the Fast and Furious scandal and he refused. Lerner was ordered to turn over IRS emails about targetting tea party groups, she declined as well. Hillary Clinton's IT guy was ordered to turn over all emails and all info, he declined.
One thing in common with all? They were all held in contempt of congress and they all were never punished even when the Repubs really tried hard on Holder in 2012-2014.