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[CITE: 18USC225]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
          CHAPTER 11--BRIBERY, GRAFT, AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
 
Sec. 225. Continuing financial crimes enterprise

    (a) Whoever--
        (1) organizes, manages, or supervises a continuing financial 
    crimes enterprise; and
        (2) receives $5,000,000 or more in gross receipts from such 
    enterprise during any 24-month period,

shall be fined not more than $10,000,000 if an individual, or 
$20,000,000 if an organization, and imprisoned for a term of not less 
than 10 years and which may be life.
    (b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term ``continuing financial 
crimes enterprise'' means a series of violations under section 215, 656, 
657, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1014, 1032, or 1344 of this title, or section 
1341 or 1343 affecting a financial institution, committed by at least 4 
persons acting in concert.

(Added Pub. L. 101-647, title XXV, Sec. 2510(a), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 
Stat. 4863.)