---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3682"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3682"
heading: "Notice to victims of order of special forfeiture"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3682"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 232A — Special Forfeiture of Collateral Profits of Crime"
---

# §3682. Notice to victims of order of special forfeiture


The United States attorney shall, within thirty days after the imposition of an order under this chapter and at such other times as the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7) may require, publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the district in which the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) for which a defendant was convicted occurred, a notice that [states](/usc/18/3077.md?p=5)—

- (1) the name of, and other identifying information about, the defendant;
- (2) the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) for which the defendant was convicted; and
- (3) that the court has ordered a special forfeiture of certain proceeds that may be used to satisfy a judgment obtained against the defendant by a victim of an [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) for which the defendant has been convicted.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1406(a), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2176, § 3672; renumbered § 3682, Pub. L. 99–646, § 41(a), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3600.)