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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Part II · Chapter 232 — Miscellaneous Sentencing Provisions

§ 3666. Bribe moneys

Statutory text

Moneys received or tendered in evidence in any United States Court, or before any officer thereof, which have been paid to or received by any official as a bribe, shall, after the final disposition of the case, proceeding or investigation, be deposited in the registry of the court to be disposed of in accordance with the order of the court, to be subject, however, to the provisions of section 2042 of Title 28.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683

    Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 3666

    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 840, § 3612

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 840, § 3612

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Notes

Historical and Revision Notes
1948 Act

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 570 (Jan. 7, 1925, ch. 33, 43 Stat. 726).

Changes were made in phraseology.

1949 Act

This section [section 55] corrects section 3612 of title 18, U.S.C., so that the reference in such section will be to the correct section number in title 28, U.S.C., as revised and enacted in 1948.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1949—Act , substituted “section 2042” for “section 852”.

Credits

1948–1984 · 3 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 840, § 3612
  2. 1949May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 55, 63 Stat. 96
  3. 1984renumbered § 3666, Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(1), , 98 Stat. 1987.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 840, § 3612; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 55, 63 Stat. 96; renumbered § 3666, Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(1), , 98 Stat. 1987.)

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