---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3682"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3682"
heading: "Notice to victims of order of special forfeiture"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3682"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 232A — Special Forfeiture of Collateral Profits of Crime"
---

# §3682. Notice to victims of order of special forfeiture


The [United States](/usc/18/5.md) attorney shall, within thirty days after the imposition of an order under this chapter and at such other times as the Attorney General may require, publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the district in which the offense for which a defendant was convicted occurred, a notice that [states](/usc/18/402.md)—

- (1) the name of, and other identifying information about, the defendant;
- (2) the offense for which the defendant was convicted; and
- (3) that the court has ordered a special forfeiture of certain [proceeds](/usc/18/1957.md?p=f-3) that may be used to satisfy a judgment obtained against the defendant by a victim of an offense for which the defendant has been convicted.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1406(a), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2176, § 3672; renumbered § 3682, Pub. L. 99–646, § 41(a), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3600.)