Can a person commit a crime if he falsifies a governmental record the government was not required by law to keep? Yes. A record kept by the government for information is still a governmental record even if the government was not required to keep it. However, if the government has no legal authority to require the record, a person cannot defraud or harm the government by tampering with the record. Does this also mean that the falsification of the record in this case had no...
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