18 U.S.C. § 335 — Circulation of obligations of expired corporations

This law targets people connected to a corporation that Congress created by law, but whose charter has since expired. It covers directors, officers, or agents of that corporation, any trustee handling its affairs, an agent of that trustee, or anyone holding the corporation's property in order to pay off or redeem its old notes and debts. If any of these people knowingly issue, reissue, or otherwise put into circulation a bill, note, check, draft, or other paper that looks like it was created by the expired corporation — or by one of its officers, or under its authority — they have broken this law. It doesn't matter whether they create a brand-new document or just recirculate an old one; what matters is that they know what they're doing. Anyone who violates this law can be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to five years, or both.