United States v. Anthony F. Vap

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Anthony F. Yap appeals from his conviction on one count of knowingly making false material declarations under oath (“perjury”) before a federal grand jury, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623. The perjury occurred during a 1985 grand jury investigation (the “Evans investigation”) of corruption that targeted Evans & Associates Construction Co. (“Evans”) and several county commissioners in Oklahoma. Although not himself a target of that investigation, defendant was called as a witness.

The government alleged that defendant’s grand jury testimony contained seventeen…