Making a false statement to a state prosecutor in New York isn’t a crime under the state’s current penal code, but that could change in some cases if Democrats secure approval of a bill recently introduced in the state Legislature.

A bill by Sen. Todd Kaminsky, D-Nassau, would make lying to a state prosecutor or investigator in cases of public corruption or white-collar crime a class E felony, punishable by up to four years in prison if convicted.

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