Justice Manual § 5-11.102

Experience has shown that cases involving violations of the federal environmental laws identified in JM 5-11.101 often involve violations of certain other federal statutes or criminal forfeiture. The Environmental Crimes Section (ECS) is empowered to investigate and prosecute violations of additional criminal statutes when such violations arise in the course of environmental crimes investigations, subject to provisions that expressly assign certain matters to another division, see e.g., 28 C.F.R. §§ 0.55 (Criminal Division), 0.70 (Tax Division), or otherwise require prior authorization from another component. Examples of some of the statutes most commonly involved in those cases include:

Subject Matter: Statute

Aiding and Abetting: 18 U.S.C. § 2

Misprision of Felony: 18 U.S.C. § 4

False Claims: 18 U.S.C. § 287

Conspiracy: 18 U.S.C. § 371

Entry of Goods by Means of False Statements and Smuggling: 18 U.S.C. §§ 542, 545, 554

Theft or Conversion of Public Property or Money: 18 U.S.C. § 641

Federal Program Theft: 18 U.S.C. § 666

False Statement: 18 U.S.C. § 1001

Mail Fraud and Other Fraud Offenses: 18 U.S.C. § 1341

Money Laundering: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956, 1957

Obstruction of Justice: 18 U.S.C. § 1501

Perjury: 18 U.S.C. § 1621