---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3073"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3073"
heading: "Protection of identity"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3073"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 204 — Rewards for Information Concerning Terrorist Acts and Espionage"
---

# §3073. Protection of identity


Any reward granted under this chapter shall be certified for payment by the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7). If it is determined that the identity of the recipient of a reward or of the members of the recipient’s immediate family must be protected, the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7) may take such measures in connection with the payment of the reward as deemed necessary to effect such protection.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–533, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2707.)