Fraud in foreign labor contracting
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
(a) Work Inside the United States. Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the United States or causes another person to recruit, solicit, or hire a person outside the United States, or to do so, for purposes of employment in the United States by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises regarding that employment shall be or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Work Outside the United States. Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the United States or causes another person to recruit, solicit, or hire a person outside the United States, or to do so, for purposes of employment performed on a United States Government contract performed outside the United States, or on a United States military installation or mission outside the United States or other property or premises outside the United States owned or controlled by the United States Government, by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises regarding that employment, shall be or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
History: (Added Pub. L. 110–457, title II, §222(e)(2), Dec. 23, 2008, 122 Stat. 5070; amended Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title XVII, §1706(a), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2097.)
Simplified explanation
It is a federal crime to knowingly recruit or hire people outside the United States, or try to, using false promises about jobs in the United States or on U.S. government contracts, military bases, or other U.S. property abroad.