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[CITE: 18USC1344]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                         CHAPTER 63--MAIL FRAUD
 
Sec. 1344. Bank fraud

    Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or 
artifice--
        (1) to defraud a financial institution; or
        (2) to obtain any of the moneys, funds, credits, assets, 
    securities, or other property owned by, or under the custody or 
    control of, a financial institution, by means of false or fraudulent 
    pretenses, representations, or promises;

shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 
years, or both.

(Added Pub. L. 98-473, title II, Sec. 1108(a), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 
2147; amended Pub. L. 101-73, title IX, Sec. 961(k), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 
Stat. 500; Pub. L. 101-647, title XXV, Sec. 2504(j), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 
Stat. 4861.)