Sec. 8. Fighting complex criminal enterprises engaged in human trafficking
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Chapter 96 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: In this section— the term aggravated human-trafficking racketeering activity means any activity that— is a racketeering activity (as defined in section 1961(1)); and includes— any act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, coerced prostitution, or the production of child pornography, which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year (as amended or revised as of the date on which the activity occurred or, in the instance of a continuing offense, the date on which the charges under this section are filed in a particular matter); or any act that is indictable under (as amended or revised as of the date on which the activity occurred or, in the instance of a continuing offense, the date on which charges under this section are filed in a particular matter)— sections 1581 through 1592 (relating to peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons); section 1958 (relating to use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire); section 1959 (relating to violent crimes in aid of racketeering); section 2251, 2251A, 2252, or 2260 (relating to sexual exploitation of children); or sections 2421 through 2424 (relating to slave traffic); and the term enterprise has the meaning given the term in section 1961.
It shall be unlawful for any person to participate, directly or indirectly, in or relating to the affairs of any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, if— such participation within the enterprise includes committing or causing to be committed 2 or more acts of aggravated human-trafficking racketeering activity in or relating to the affairs of the enterprise; or such participation within the enterprise includes any act of participation with the intention that some known or unknown participant or participants within the enterprise would commit, or would cause to be committed, individually or collectively, 2 or more acts of aggravated human-trafficking racketeering activity in or relating to the affairs of the enterprise.
It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate subsection (b). Whoever violates this section shall be punished in accordance with section 1963. Any person prosecuted under this section may be both convicted and sentenced in any court of competent jurisdiction for any combination of the following: The offense of conspiring to violate this section, and for any other particular offense or offenses that may be an object of the conspiracy. Any violation of this section.
Any aggravated human-trafficking racketeering activity. . Section 1963 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting or section 1969 after section 1962 each place it appears. Section 1959 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— by inserting or aggravated human-trafficking racketeering activity before , or for the purpose ; and by striking murders, kidnaps, maims and inserting aggravated human trafficking racketeering activity, murders, kidnaps, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, coerced prostitution, maims ; and in subsection (b)— by redesignating paragraphs
(1)and
(2)as paragraphs
(2)and (3), respectively; and by inserting before paragraph (2), as redesignated, the following: aggravated human-trafficking racketeering activity has the meaning given the term in section 1969; . The table of sections for chapter 96 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1968 the following: 1969. Aggravated human trafficking racketeering. .