Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXV. Business and Financial Institutions § 286.5-810.Injurious statements about associations; penalty

Whoever willfully and knowingly makes, issues, circulates, transmits or causes or knowingly permits to be made, issued, circulated or transmitted, any statement of rumor, written, printed reproduced in any manner, or by word of mouth, which is untrue in fact and is directly or by inference false, malicious in that it is calculated to injure reputation or business, or derogatory to the reputation, financial condition or standing of any association, federal savings and loan association, federal home loan bank, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned for not more than one (1) year, or both.