Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Part E · Chapter 53 — Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
§ 5566. Referrals for criminal proceedings
Statutory text
If the Bureau obtains evidence that any person, domestic or foreign, has engaged in conduct that may constitute a violation of Federal criminal law, the Bureau shall transmit such evidence to the Attorney General of the United States, who may institute criminal proceedings under appropriate law. Nothing in this section affects any other authority of the Bureau to disclose information.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010
Pub. L. 111–203 title X § 1056 · 124 Stat. 1376
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 5566
(Pub. L. 111–203, title X, § 1056, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2031.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 111–203, title X, § 1056, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2031.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1056. REFERRALS FOR CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. If the Bureau obtains evidence that any person, domestic or foreign, has engaged in conduct that may constitute a violation of Federal criminal law, the Bureau shall transmit such evidence to the Attorney General of the United States, who may institute criminal proceedings under appropriate law. Nothing in this section affects any other authority of the Bureau to disclose information.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the designated transfer date, see section 1058 of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as a note under section 5561 of this title.