---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 225"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "225"
heading: "Continuing financial crimes enterprise"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/225"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 11 — Bribery, Graft, and Conflicts of Interest"
---

# §225. Continuing financial crimes enterprise

- (a) [Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1)—
  - (1) organizes, manages, or supervises a continuing financial crimes [enterprise](/usc/18/1961.md?p=4); and
  - (2) receives $5,000,000 or more in gross receipts from such [enterprise](/usc/18/1961.md?p=4) during any 24-month period,

  shall be fined not more than $10,000,000 if an individual, or $20,000,000 if an [organization](/usc/18/2256.md?p=4), and imprisoned for a term of not less than 10 years and which may be life.

- (b) For purposes of [subsection (a)](#a), the term “continuing financial crimes [enterprise](/usc/18/1961.md?p=4)” means a series of violations under section [215](/usc/18/215.md), [656](/usc/18/656.md), [657](/usc/18/657.md), [1005](/usc/18/1005.md), [1006](/usc/18/1006.md), [1007](/usc/18/1007.md), [1014](/usc/18/1014.md), [1032](/usc/18/1032.md), or [1344](/usc/18/1344.md) of this title, or section [1341](/usc/18/1341.md) or [1343](/usc/18/1343.md) affecting a financial institution, committed by at least 4 [persons](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) acting in concert.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2510(a), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4863.)