---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 5234"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "5234"
heading: "Cooperation with the FBI"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/5234"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Emergency Economic Stabilization"
  - "Subchapter I — Troubled Assets Relief Program"
---

# §5234. Cooperation with the FBI


Any Federal financial regulatory agency shall cooperate with the Federal [Bureau](/usc/12/5481.md?p=2) of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies investigating fraud, misrepresentation, and malfeasance with respect to development, advertising, and sale of financial products.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–343, div. A, title I, § 127, Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3796.)
