18 U.S.C. § 333
Mutilation of national bank obligations
Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1943–2015 · leading case: Smith v. Goguen, 415 U.S. 566 (1974).
Smith v. Goguen, 415 U.S. 566 (1974). “§ 331 prohibits the alteration of any Federal Reserve note or national bank note, and 18 U. S. C. § 333 prohibits the disfiguring or defacing of any national bank note or coin.”
United States v. Funds in the Amount of $574,840, 719 F.3d 648 (7th Cir. 2013). “18 U.S.C. § 333 .) But there is more to Rule G(8)(c) than this.”
United States v. Joann Mitcheltree, 940 F.2d 1329 (10th Cir. 1991). “§ 331 (a), with intent to mislead or defraud, 18 U.S.C. § 333 (a)(2). We review the evidence and its reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to the government to determine “whether any rational trier of fact could have found the elements of the crime beyond a…”
United States v. Bruce L. Amidon, 627 F.2d 1023 (9th Cir. 1980). “Amidon pled guilty on March 12, 1979 to a misdemeanor information charging two counts of mutilating national bank obligations in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 333 . After the court accepted his plea, it dismissed an underlying felony indictment charging two counts of connecting parts…”
United States v. Archer, 51 F. Supp. 708 (S.D. Cal. 1943). “The section, in some aspects anyway, includes letters posted outside the United States, since it expressly makes it a crime to ‘take or receive any such’ from the mails, though so posted.”
United States v. Zaky, 224 F. App'x 483 (6th Cir. 2007). “§ 1341 ; one count of misuse of treasury name, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 333 ; and one count of false statements, in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Arevalo, 112 F. Supp. 3d 1185 (D. Kan. 2015). “The government also charges that defendant Marisela Ramirez mutilated a Federal Reserve Note ( 18 U.S.C. § 333 ), and attempted the depredation of government property ( 18 U.”
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