18 U.S.C. § 1593A
Section 1593A · Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Muchira v. Al-Rawaf (2017)
Most recently applied in United States v. Isac Schwarzbaum (January 2025)
Whoever knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in any act in violation of this chapter, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the venture has engaged in such violation, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned in the same manner as a completed violation of such section.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–393 substituted "this chapter" for "section 1581(a), 1592, or 1595(a)".