misleading statement

Roland concluded that the evidence presented at a three-day trial in April “unequivocally demonstrates” that Dunn’s “false and misleading statement to the Board was made knowingly.”

“What happened here was a false or misleading statement from a United employee resulted in a man being handcuffed in front of his family, his wife, his children,” Davis’ attorney, Parker Stinar, said Wednesday on “CBS Mornings.”

“Being humiliated, tremendous fear, embarrassment, shock to the family. And he’s escorted off the plane because of these statements, which within minutes law enforcement interviewing Mr. Davis, other passengers and others determined that it was a false or misleading statement.”

The group also expressed concern over a proposal to treat “colluding with foreign forces to issue a ‘misleading’ statement” that could endanger national security either intentionally or through negligence, as espionage.

Scheer “ran back to the plane to get the tapes,” and effectively caught the nominee violating his pledge never to make a “misleading statement.”