18 U.S.C. § 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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1971–1979 · leading case: United States v. Strangstalien
United States v. Strangstalien (1979)
“18 U.S.C. § 1732 . In ruling the statement inadmissible the Court observed that “ ‘regular course’ of business must find its meaning in the inherent nature of the business in question and in the methods systematically employed for the conduct of the business as a business.”
United States v. Terry Joseph Wing (1971)
“We have here precisely the kind of contemporaneous record of an event (systematically prepared by a sovereign government for its own use and relied upon by it in the performance of its custom’s functions), which experience has shown to be trustworthy, and which therefore falls…”
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