                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                   CHAPTER 31--EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT
 
Sec. 652. Disbursing officer paying lesser in lieu of lawful 
        amount
        
    Whoever, being an officer, clerk, agent, employee, or other person 
charged with the payment of any appropriation made by Congress, pays to 
any clerk or other employee of the United States, or of any department 
or agency thereof, a sum less than that provided by law, and requires 
such employee to receipt or give a voucher for an amount greater than 
that actually paid to and received by him, is guilty of embezzlement, 
and shall be fined under this title or in double the amount so withheld, 
whichever is greater, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both; 
but if the amount embezzled is $1,000 or less, he shall be fined under 
this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 727; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(H), (2)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147, 2148; Pub. L. 
104-294, title VI, Sec. 606(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3511.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 172 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 86, 35 Stat. 1105).
    Words ``or of any department or agency thereof,'' were inserted 
after ``United States'' so as to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to 
scope of section. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)
    Mandatory punishment provision made in alternative.
    The smaller punishment for an offense involving $100 or less was 
added. (See reviser's note under sections 641, 645 of this title.)
    Minor changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-294 substituted ``$1,000'' for ``$100''.
    1994--Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(2)(G), substituted ``shall be 
fined under this title or in double the amount so withheld, whichever is 
greater, or imprisoned'' for ``shall be fined in double the amount so 
withheld or imprisoned''.
    Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(H), substituted ``fined under this 
title'' for ``fined not more than $1,000'' after ``he shall be''.
