§ 1880
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Every officer, director, clerk, employee, or agent of any corporation who embezzles, abstracts, or willfully misapplies any of the moneys, funds, credits, securities, evidence of indebtedness or assets of any character of such corporation, or who, without authority from the directors, issues or puts forth any certificate of deposit, draws any order or bill of exchange, makes any acceptance, assigns any note, bond, debenture, draft, bill of exchange, mortgage, judgment, or decree, or who makes any false entry in any book, report, or statement of such corporation with intent, in either case, to injure or defraud such corporation or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of such corporation, the commissioner, or any agent or examiner appointed to examine the affairs of any such corporation; and every receiver of any corporation and every clerk or employee of such receiver who shall embezzle, abstract, or willfully misapply or wrongfully convert to his or her own use any moneys, funds, credits, or assets of any character which may come into his or her possession or under his or her control in the execution of his or her trust or the performance of the duties of his or her employment; and every such receiver or clerk or employee of such receiver who shall, with intent to injure or defraud any person, body politic or corporate, or to deceive or mislead the commissioner or any agent or examiner appointed to examine the affairs of such receiver, shall make any false entry in any book, report, or record of any matter connected with the duties of such receiver; and every person who with like intent aids or abets any officer, director, clerk, employee, or agent of any corporation, or receiver or clerk or employee of such receiver as aforesaid in any violation of this article shall upon conviction thereof be imprisoned for two, three, or four years, and may also be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), in the discretion of the court.