Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 41 — Extortion and Threats
§ 880. Receiving the proceeds of extortion
Statutory text
A person who receives, possesses, conceals, or disposes of any money or other property which was obtained from the commission of any offense under this chapter that is punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year, knowing the same to have been unlawfully obtained, shall be imprisoned not more than 3 years, fined under this title, or both.
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.
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXII § 320601(a)(1) · 108 Stat. 1796
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 880
(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320601(a)(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2115.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320601(a)(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2115.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) by adding at the end the following new section: “§880. Receiving the proceeds of extortion “A person who receives, possesses, conceals, or disposes of any money or other property which was obtained from the commission of any offense under this chapter that is punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year, knowing the same to have been unlawfully obtained, shall be imprisoned not more than 3 years, fined under this title, or both.”; and
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320601(a)(1), , 108 Stat. 2115.)