Every person, firm or corporation, or the agent, clerk or employee thereof, who knowingly makes, causes to be made, or permits to be made, any false credit statement to any wholesale dealer, for the purpose of establishing credit in general or with such dealer, or to any person, firm or corporation engaged in furnishing credit statements to wholesale merchants in general or to any particular person, firm or corporation engaged in the wholesale business, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year or by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Okla. Stat. tit. 24, § 85