§ 1593A
Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons
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Human Trafficking & Slavery
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Ch. 77 · Peonage, Slavery, and Trafficking in Persons
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Whoever knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in any act in violation of this chapter, knowing or in of the fact that the venture has engaged in such violation, shall be or imprisoned in the same manner as a completed violation of such section.
History: (Added Pub. L. 110–457, title II, §222(d)(1), Dec. 23, 2008, 122 Stat. 5070; amended Pub. L. 115–393, title III, §303(c), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5273.)
Simplified explanation
It is a federal crime to knowingly profit, financially or with anything of value, from a venture that committed a slavery or trafficking crime, if the person knew or recklessly ignored that the venture did so.