18 U.S.C. § 472 — Uttering counterfeit obligations or securities

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It's a federal crime to pass off fake U.S. money or securities as real. This includes selling, publishing, or trying to use them, or bringing them into the country. A conviction can bring a fine or up to 20 years in prison.

Anyone who intends to defraud someone commits a crime under this law by passing, publishing, selling, or trying to pass, publish, or sell any obligation or security of the United States that is falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered -- like fake currency or fake government bonds. It's also a crime to bring such fake items into the United States, or to keep or hide them, with that same intent to defraud. Someone convicted under this law can be fined under the rules of this title, or imprisoned for up to 20 years, or both.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, with intent to defraud, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or with like intent brings into the United States or keeps in possession or conceals any falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered obligation or other security of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 705; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 107–56, title III, § 374(c), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 340.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 705
1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
2001Amended · Pub. L. 107-56 · 115 Stat. 340

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

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