9-130.000
LABOR STATUTES
GENERALLY
9-130.100 Investigative
Jurisdiction
9-130.200 Supervisory
Jurisdiction
9-130.300 Consultation
Requirements
Contained in USAM
9-131.000 to 9-139.000
See the Criminal Resource
Manual at
2401.
Questions concerning the labor statutes included in
Chapters 130-139
should be referred to the Labor-Management Unit of the Organized
Crime and
Racketeering Section of the Criminal Division with the following
exceptions:
- Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division,
supervises violations
of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 involving extortion under color of official
right or
extortion by a public official through misuse of his/her office;
- Terrorism and Violent Crimes Section, Criminal Division,
supervises
violations of the following statutes when the violations do not
involve
labor-management disputes or organized crime:
- 18 U.S.C. § 1951 -- Robbery and Commercial Extortion;
- 18 U.S.C. § 33 -- Destruction of Motor Vehicles.
See USAM 9-63.241;
- 18 U.S.C. § 844 -- Use of explosives or arson. See
USAM 9-63.900 et seq; and
- 49 U.S.C. § 80501 -- Damage to Property Being Transported
In Interstate
Commerce (formerly 15 §§ 1281 and 1282 transferred to Title
49 effective
July 5, 1994).
Consultation with the Criminal Division through the
Organized Crime and
Racketeering Section's Labor-Management Unit is required prior to
initiating
criminal prosecution in the following matters:
- 18 U.S.C. § 1951 -- Extortion arising out of
labor disputes.
See USAM 9-131.030.
- 29 U.S.C. § 504 -- Prohibited Service with Labor Unions and
Employer
Associations. See USAM
9-138.030.
- 29 U.S.C. § 1111 -- Prohibited Service with Employee
Benefit Plans.
See USAM 9-138.030.
- 45 U.S.C. § 152, Tenth and Sec. 180 -- Labor-Management
Disputes in the
Railway and Airline Industries. See USAM
9-139.103.
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