(a) Whoever—
(1) corruptly gives, offers, or promises
anything of value to any person, with intent to influence or reward
an officer, director, employee, agent, or attorney of a financial
institution in connection with any business or transaction of such
institution; or
(2)
as an officer, director, employee, agent, or attorney of a financial
institution, corruptly solicits or demands for the benefit of any
person, or corruptly accepts or agrees to accept, anything of value
from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded in connection
with any business or transaction of such institution;
shall be fined not more than $1,000,000
or three times the value of the thing given, offered, promised, solicited,
demanded, accepted, or agreed to be accepted, whichever is greater,
or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both, but if the value of
the thing given, offered, promised, solicited, demanded, accepted,
or agreed to be accepted does not exceed $1,000, shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
1-454.1
(b) [Reserved.]
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(c) This section shall not apply
to bona fide salary, wages, fees, or other compensation paid, or expenses
paid or reimbursed, in the usual course of business.
(d) Federal agencies with responsibility for regulating a financial
institution shall jointly establish such guidelines as are appropriate
to assist an officer, director, employee, agent, or attorney of a
financial institution to comply with this section. Such agencies shall
make such guidelines available to the public.
[18 USC 215 (formerly
section 220). As amended by acts of Sept. 21, 1950 (64 Stat. 894);
Oct. 23, 1962 (76 Stat. 1125), which redesignated the number of this
section; Oct. 12, 1984 (98 Stat. 2145); Aug. 4, 1986 (100 Stat. 779);
Aug. 7, 1989 (103 Stat. 499); Nov. 29, 1990 (104 Stat. 4861); Sept.
13, 1994 (108 Stat. 2147); and Oct. 11, 1996 (110 Stat. 3511).]
