---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 5366"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "5366"
heading: "Criminal penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/5366"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Money"
  - "Chapter 53 — Monetary Transactions"
  - "Subchapter IV — Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling"
---

# §5366. Criminal penalties

- (a) **In General.—** Any person who violates [section 5363](/usc/31/5363.md) shall be fined under [title 18](/usc/18.md), imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
- (b) **Permanent Injunction.—** Upon conviction of a person under this section, the court may enter a permanent injunction enjoining such person from placing, receiving, or otherwise making bets or wagers or sending, receiving, or inviting information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–347, title VIII, § 802(a), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1961.)