lying

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Scott, a former Bush and Trump United States attorney, managed to get Williamson’s original 23-count indictment knocked down to the Becerra account issue, along with lying to the FBI and filing a false tax return.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Kapri had been serving a 46-month sentence for lying on background-check paperwork related to firearms purchases in 2019, with a separate one-year term for gun possession running concurrently.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Skelton said: "We saw the chap had been lying to us. We had genuine hard facts we could use."

From BBC • May 7, 2026

"The crocodile itself was lying on an island... there really was no other way to get to it except from the air," he told the BBC.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Here’s the scene: he’s gasping on the beach, realizes that he’s lying on a fishing net—and, as he sits up, is nearly bonked on the head by a falling coconut.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr