TheChevra, thank you for the amusement. We are all happy you know how to use Google. Unfortunately, having a fact at hand and applying it correctly are often different.
(By the way, since you are nitpicking, I am not a “barrister;” this is not the United Kingdom.)
Title 18 of the United States Code is the federal criminal code. The section you quoted is applicable only to federal cases and has nothing to do with this matter.
It may have missed your attention, but the blue flag on Ms. Milian’s left was the flag of the State of New York. If you make a false statement after being sworn during an arbitration hearing in New York (as this was), you indeed commit perjury.
As I said earlier, there is not the time and space to review all the tipshus posted here. Why are you adding to it?
I have a more productive use of your time–argue medicine with your doctor. LOL!