failure to file or falsifying reports

failure to file or falsifying reports Sec. 204. (a) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any appropriate United States District Court, against any individual who knowingly and willfully falsifies or who knowingly or willfully fails to file or report any information that such individual is required to report pursuant to section 202. The court in which such action is brought may assess against such individual a civil penalty in any amount, not to exceed $5,000. (b) The head of each agency, each Secretary concerned, or the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, as the case may be, shall refer to the Attorney General the name of any individual he has reasonable cause to believe has willfully failed to file a report or has willfully falsified or willfully failed to file information required to be reported. (c) The President, the Vice President, the Secretary concerned, the head of each agency, and the Civil Service Commission, may take any appropriate personnel or other action in accordance with applicable law or regulation against any individual failing to file a report or falsifying or failing to report information required to be reported.