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§ 158. Designation of Unit­ed States at­tor­neys and agents of the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion to ad­dress abu­sive re­af­fir­ma­tions of debt and ma­te­ri­al­ly fraud­u­lent state­ments in bank­rupt­cy sched­ules

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(a) In Gen­er­al.—The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of the Unit­ed States shall des­ig­nate the in­di­vid­u­als de­scribed in sub­sec­tion (b) to have pri­ma­ry re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in car­ry­ing out en­force­ment ac­tiv­i­ties in ad­dress­ing vi­o­la­tions of sec­tion 152 or 157 re­lat­ing to abu­sive re­af­fir­ma­tions of debt. In ad­di­tion to ad­dress­ing the vi­o­la­tions re­ferred to in the pre­ced­ing sen­tence, the in­di­vid­u­als de­scribed un­der sub­sec­tion (b) shall ad­dress vi­o­la­tions of sec­tion 152 or 157 re­lat­ing to ma­te­ri­al­ly fraud­u­lent state­ments in bank­rupt­cy sched­ules that are in­ten­tion­al­ly false or in­ten­tion­al­ly mis­lead­ing.

(b) Unit­ed States Attorneys and Agents of the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion.—The in­di­vid­u­als re­ferred to in sub­sec­tion (a) are—

(1) the Unit­ed States at­tor­ney for each ju­di­cial dis­trict of the Unit­ed States; and

(2) an agent of the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion for each field of­fice of the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion.

(c) Bank­rupt­cy Investigations.—Each Unit­ed States at­tor­ney des­ig­nated un­der this sec­tion shall, in ad­di­tion to any oth­er re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, have pri­ma­ry re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for car­ry­ing out the du­ties of a Unit­ed States at­tor­ney un­der sec­tion 3057.

(d) Bank­rupt­cy Pro­ce­dures.—The bank­rupt­cy courts shall es­tab­lish pro­ce­dures for re­fer­ring any case that may con­tain a ma­te­ri­al­ly fraud­u­lent state­ment in a bank­rupt­cy sched­ule to the in­di­vid­u­als des­ig­nated un­der this sec­tion.

(Added Pub. L.109-8, Title II, Subti­tle A, § 203(b)(1), April 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 49.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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