---
kind: "unit"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
key: "ptI/ch9"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 9"
heading: "Bankruptcy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/ptI-ch9"
sections_count: 8
---

# Chapter 9 — Bankruptcy

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Part I — Crimes

## Sections

- [§151. Definition](/usc/18/151.md)
- [§152. Concealment of assets; false oaths and claims; bribery](/usc/18/152.md)
- [§153. Embezzlement against estate](/usc/18/153.md)
- [§154. Adverse interest and conduct of officers](/usc/18/154.md)
- [§155. Fee agreements in cases under title 11 and receiverships](/usc/18/155.md)
- [§156. Knowing disregard of bankruptcy law or rule](/usc/18/156.md)
- [§157. Bankruptcy fraud](/usc/18/157.md)
- [§158. Designation of United States attorneys and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to address abusive reaffirmations of debt and materially fraudulent statements in bankruptcy schedules](/usc/18/158.md)