Title 18, Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-102
§1593A Benefitting Financially From Peonage, Slavery, and Trafficking in Persons
Title 18 › PART I — CRIMES › CHAPTER 77 — PEONAGE, SLAVERY, AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS › § 1593A
Summary
Anyone who profits from a business they knew, or recklessly ignored, was breaking this chapter can be fined or jailed like the person who committed the offense.
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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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102