---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10272"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10272"
heading: "Falsification or concealment of facts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10272"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter X — Criminal Penalties"
---

# §10272. Falsification or concealment of facts


Whoever knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals, or covers up by trick, scheme, or device, any material fact in any application for assistance submitted pursuant to this chapter or in any records required to be maintained pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to [prosecution](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-28) under the provisions of [section 1001 of title 18](/usc/18/1001.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1102, as added Pub. L. 96–157, § 2, Dec. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 1219.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3795a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in former section 3792 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 96–157.