§1168 — Title 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure | U.S. Code

Summary

Stealing, misusing, or intentionally taking money or property from a tribal gaming establishment approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission is a federal crime. People who work there or are licensed to work there — officers, employees, or individual licensees — can be punished. If the value taken is $1,000 or less, the person can be fined up to $250,000, jailed up to 5 years, or both. If the value is more than $1,000, the fine can be up to $1,000,000, jail up to 20 years, or both.

Title 18, §1168

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(a)Whoever, being an officer, employee, or individual licensee of a gaming establishment operated by or for or licensed by an Indian tribe pursuant to an ordinance or resolution approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission, embezzles, abstracts, purloins, willfully misapplies, or takes and carries away with intent to steal, any moneys, funds, assets, or other property of such establishment of a value of $1,000 or less shall be fined not more than $250,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both;

(b)Whoever, being an officer, employee, or individual licensee of a gaming establishment operated by or for or licensed by an Indian tribe pursuant to an ordinance or resolution approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission, embezzles, abstracts, purloins, willfully misapplies, or takes and carries away with intent to steal, any moneys, funds, assets, or other property of such establishment of a value in excess of $1,000 shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned for not more than twenty years, or both.

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Amendments

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–647 substituted “or imprisoned” for “and be imprisoned for”.

§1168 Theft by Officers or Employees of Gaming Establishments on Indian Lands

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Title 18, §1168

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