18 U.S.C. § 875 — Interstate communications

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This section punishes interstate or foreign communications containing ransom demands or threats to kidnap, injure people, damage property or reputation, or accuse someone of a crime.

(a) Sending in interstate or foreign commerce a communication demanding or requesting ransom or reward for releasing a kidnapped person is punishable by a fine, up to 20 years' imprisonment, or both. (b) Sending such a communication with intent to extort money or anything valuable, and threatening to kidnap or injure someone, is punishable by a fine, up to 20 years' imprisonment, or both. (c) Sending a communication threatening to kidnap or injure someone is punishable by a fine, up to five years' imprisonment, or both. (d) With intent to extort money or anything valuable, sending a communication threatening to injure the addressee's or another person's property or reputation, a deceased person's reputation, or threatening to accuse the addressee or another person of a crime, is punishable by a fine, up to two years' imprisonment, or both.

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(a)

Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any demand or request for a ransom or reward for the release of any kidnapped person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(b)

Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(c)

Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(d)

Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 741; Pub. L. 99–646, § 63, Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3614; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), (H), (K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 741
1986Amended · Pub. L. 99-646 · 100 Stat. 3614
1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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