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I don't know how Massachusetts law -- or US Federal law -- swings, but here in the UK there's a specific crime, magnificently called Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice, which covers everything from perjury to faking evidence. And while the average sentence is on the order of 2 years, there's no upper limit: a life sentence is possible in sufficiently extreme cases.

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With 40k counts here, it can be a matter of deciding whether the sentences --no matter how light--should be served concurrently or sequentially.

How does one serve multiple jail terms concurrently? The whole idea makes no sense.

If you define a jail cell to be in two different jails at the same time then you can serve two sentences in two jails at the same time :)

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