Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73
§1593A Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons
Title 18 › Part PART I— - CRIMES › Chapter CHAPTER 77— - PEONAGE, SLAVERY, AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS › § 1593A
Summary
Knowingly benefiting from a venture that broke these laws, while knowing or recklessly ignoring that fact, can lead to fines or prison equal to the crime.
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Title 18, §1593A
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Whoever knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in any act in violation of this chapter, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the venture has engaged in such violation, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned in the same manner as a completed violation of such section.
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2018—Pub. L. 115–393 substituted “this chapter” for “section 1581(a), 1592, or 1595(a)”.
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18 U.S.C. § 1593A
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73