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Criminal Resource Manual
CRM 500-999

959. Ten-year Statute of Limitations

18 U.S.C. § 3293(2) provides for a ten-year statute of limitations for a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate, the mail or wire fraud statutes, if the offense affects a financial institution. Moreover, the ten-year statute applies to offenses committed prior to enactment of FIRREA, provided the previously applicable statute of limitations had not run as of the date of FIRREA's enactment. Pub.L. No. 101-73, Title IX, § 961(l)(3), 103 Stat. 501.

[cited in JM 9-43.100]