18 U.S.C. § 2271
Conspiracy to destroy vessels
Whoever, on the high seas, or within the United States, willfully and corruptly conspires, combines, and confederates with any other person, such other person being either within or without the United States, to cast away or otherwise destroy any vessel, with intent to injure any person that may have underwritten or may thereafter underwrite any policy of insurance thereon or on goods on board thereof, or with intent to injure any person that has lent or advanced, or may lend or advance, any money on such vessel on bottomry or respondentia; or
Whoever, within the United States, builds, or fits out any vessel to be cast away or destroyed, with like intent—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1985–2014 · leading case: United States v. Daniel J. D'Antoni and Richard Ales
United States v. Daniel J. D'Antoni and Richard Ales (1989)
“§ 286 , which authorizes a maximum of ten years for conspiring to defraud the government; 18 U.S.C. § 2271 , which authorizes a maximum of ten years for conspiring to destroy vessels; 18 U.”
United States v. William Day (1991)
“Count One: conspiracy to destroy a vessel with intent to injure the underwriter of the insurance on the vessel in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2271 ; and Count Two: destruction of a vessel with intent to injure the underwriter of insurance on the vessel, in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Caldwell (1985)
“18 U.S.C. § 2271 . Count XII charged the defendants with the substantive violation of the federal statute prohibiting the sinking of a vessel for the purpose of obtaining the insurance proceeds.”
United States v. Scott Tran (2014)
“In November of that year, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to destroy a vessel in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2271 . At his plea hearing, Tran confirmed that he “develop[ed] a plan to sink the Alexander II in order to get the insurance money for the boat”; that the “plan involve[d]…”
United States v. Parrett (1994)
“§ 956 (conspiracy to injure property of foreign government); 18 U.S.C. § 2271 (conspiracy to destroy vessels); and 18 U.”
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