---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1622"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1622"
heading: "Subornation of perjury"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1622"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 79 — Perjury"
---

# §1622. Subornation of perjury


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) procures another to commit any perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 232 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 126, 35 Stat. 1111).

The punishment prescribed in section 1621 of this title was substituted for the reference thereto.

Minor change was made in phraseology.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $2,000”.