---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 8707"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "8707"
heading: "Criminal penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/8707"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 87 — Kickbacks"
---

# §8707. Criminal penalties


A [person](/usc/41/8701.md?p=3) that knowingly and willfully engages in conduct prohibited by [section 8702 of this title](/usc/41/8702.md) shall be fined under [title 18](/usc/18.md), imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3841.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8707 | 41:54. | Mar. 8, 1946, ch. 80, § 4, 60 Stat. 37; Pub. L. 86–695, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 740; Pub. L. 99–634, § 2(a), Nov. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 3524. |