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Part G of chapter XI of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, Pub.L. No. 98-473, 98 Stat. 2147 (1984), signed into law October 12, 1984, created a new, general, bank fraud offense, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1344, which supplements the previously discussed criminal provisions relating to fraud against Federally insured financial institutions.
[cited in JM 9-40.000]