The following excerpt is from Rivera v. Lynch, 816 F.3d 1064 (9th Cir. 2016):
Although section 118 reaches beyond the narrow definition of common law perjury and is not categorically a non-fraudulent CIMT, it could categorically be a CIMT if it required an intent to defraud or sounded in fraud. "A crime involves fraudulent conduct, and thus is a crime involving moral turpitude, if intent to defraud is either explicit in the statutory definition of the crime or implicit in the nature of the crime." Blanco, 518 F.3d at 719 (quoting Goldeshtein v. INS, 8 F.3d 645, 650 (9th Cir.1993) ).
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