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18 U.S.C. § 875 — Interstate communications
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**(a)** Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any demand or request for a ransom or reward for the release of any kidnapped person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
**(b)** Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
**(c)** Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
**(d)** Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
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**(a)** Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any demand or request for a ransom or reward for the release of any kidnapped person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
**(b)** Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
**(c)** Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
**(d)** Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
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The term “interstate commerce”, as used in this title, includes commerce between one State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia and another State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 875
other manner whatsoever induces any person
employed in the construction, prosecution, com-
pletion or repair of any public building, public
work, or building or work financed in whole or
in part by loans or grants from the United
States, to give up any part of the compensation
to which he is entitled under his contract of em-
ployment, shall be fined under this title or im-
prisoned not more than five years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 740; Pub. L.
103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994,
108 Stat. 2147.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on section 276b of title 40, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Pub-
lic Buildings, Property, and Works (June 13, 1934, ch.
482, § 1, 48 Stat. 948).
Slight changes of phraseology were made.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted ‘‘fined under this
title’’ for ‘‘fined not more than $5,000’’.
§ 875. Interstate communications
(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign
commerce any communication containing any
demand or request for a ransom or reward for
the release of any kidnapped person, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than twenty years, or both.
(b) Whoever, with intent to extort from any
person, firm, association, or corporation, any
money or other thing of value, transmits in
interstate or foreign commerce any communica-
tion containing any threat to kidnap any person
or any threat to injure the person of another,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than twenty years, or both.
(c) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign
commerce any communication containing any
threat to kidnap any person or any threat to in-
jure the person of another, shall be fined under
this tit
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