Other Criminal Provisions

Experience has shown that cases involving violations of the federal environmental laws identified in

JM 5-11.101

often involve violations of certain other federal statutes or criminal forfeiture. The Environmental Crimes Section (ECS) is empowered to investigate and prosecute violations of additional criminal statutes when such violations arise in the course of environmental crimes investigations, subject to provisions that expressly assign certain matters to another division,

see e.g.,

28 C.F.R. §§ 0.55 (Criminal Division), 0.70 (Tax Division), or otherwise require prior authorization from another component. Examples of some of the statutes most commonly involved in those cases include:

Subject Matter

Statute

Aiding and Abetting

18 U.S.C. § 2

Misprision of Felony

18 U.S.C. § 4

False Claims

18 U.S.C. § 287

Conspiracy

18 U.S.C. § 371

Entry of Goods by Means of False Statements and Smuggling

18 U.S.C. §§ 542, 545, 554

Theft or Conversion of Public Property or Money

18 U.S.C. § 641

Federal Program Theft

18 U.S.C. § 666

False Statement

18 U.S.C. § 1001

Mail Fraud and Other Fraud Offenses

18 U.S.C. § 1341

Money Laundering

18 U.S.C. §§ 1956, 1957

Obstruction of Justice

18 U.S.C. § 1501

Perjury

18 U.S.C. § 1621

[updated May 2018]