AndyC wrote:Yeah, that's how I see it, too.
Although I agree that he lied on the form - and he's going to bear the consequences - I'm finding it hard to see any concrete crime in this.
There was no intent to evade the background check itself that I can see (obviously, as both parties went through their respective background checks and passed) - which is the whole point of those instructions, I presume. I'm calling this "scope creep".
The crime is he lied to the government on an official document. That is a felony. In my years of human resource management for a quasi-government agency I fired a number of people for lying on their application form. it was not relevant what the lie was about - all that mattered was they denied me the opportunity to make an honest decision because they lied.