and rarely charged and difficult to prove.
Cohen Among Select Few Charged With Lying to Congress
Convictions for Lying to Congress Few and Far Between
"pursuing criminal charges against those who are untruthful to Congress would be a huge shift from tradition. “Almost no one is prosecuted for lying to Congress,” attorney PJ Meitl wrote in a 2006 law review article on the topic, “in fact, only six people have been convicted of perjury or related charges in relation to Congress in the last sixty years.”
Few liars have been as ing stupid doing it as Michael Cohen and Roger Stone, you say?!