---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 4221"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "4221"
heading: "Filing of confidential declarations by private persons identifying specific assets"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/4221"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Actions Against Persons Committing Bank Fraud Crimes"
  - "Subchapter II — Declarations Providing United States with New Information Concerning Recovery of Assets"
---

# §4221. Filing of confidential declarations by private persons identifying specific assets

- (a) **In general—** After the United States obtains a final judgment or settlement in any action referred to in [section 4201 of this title](/usc/12/4201.md), any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) may file a declaration identifying specific assets which might be recovered by the United States in satisfaction of that judgment or settlement.
- (b) **Place of filing—** A declaration under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be filed with the Attorney General of the United States or with an agent designated by him for receiving declarations under this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2576, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4899.)