18 U.S.C. § 158 — Designation of United States attorneys and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to address abusive reaffirmations of debt and materially fraudulent statements in bankruptcy schedules

(a) In General: The U.S. Attorney General must choose the people named in subsection (b) to take the lead on enforcing violations of sections 152 or 157 that involve abusive "reaffirmations of debt" — deals where a bankrupt person agrees to keep paying a debt anyway. These same people also handle violations involving bankruptcy schedules that contain statements which are intentionally false or intentionally misleading. (b) United States Attorneys and Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: The people chosen are: (1) the U.S. Attorney for every federal judicial district; and (2) an FBI agent for every FBI field office. (c) Bankruptcy Investigations: Each U.S. Attorney chosen under this section keeps their other duties too, but now also takes the lead on the duties a U.S. Attorney has under section 3057. (d) Bankruptcy Procedures: Bankruptcy courts must set up procedures for referring any case that might involve a materially fraudulent bankruptcy schedule statement to the people designated under this section.