‘‘(C) a person who violates paragraph (1) 
or (2) of subsection (b), and who at the time 
of the offense occupied a position of organizer, 
leader, supervisor, manager, or other position of 
management in the criminal street gang in-
volved in such violation, shall be imprisoned for 
any term of years not less than 15 years or for 
life. 
‘‘(d) FORFEITURE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A person who violates any 
provision of this section shall, in addition to any 
other penalty and irrespective of any provision of 
State law, forfeit to the United States— 
‘‘(A) any property constituting, or derived 
from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly 
or indirectly, as a result of the violation; and 
‘‘(B) any property used, or intended to be 
used, in any manner or part, to commit, or to 
facilitate the commission of, the violation. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION
OF
CONTROLLED
SUB-
STANCES ACT.—Subsections (b), (c), (e), (f), (g), 
(h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o), and (p) of section 
413 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
853) shall apply to a forfeiture under this section.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 26 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘521. Criminal street gang prosecutions.’’. 
SEC. 4. VIOLENT CRIMES IN FURTHERANCE OR IN AID OF 
CRIMINAL STREET GANGS. 
(a) VIOLENT CRIMES AND CRIMINAL STREET GANG 
RECRUITMENT.—Chapter 26 of title 18, United States 
Code, as amended by section 2, is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘§ 523. Violent crimes in furtherance or in aid of a 
criminal street gang 
‘‘(a) Any person who, in furtherance or in aid of a 
criminal street gang, murders, kidnaps, sexually assaults, 
maims, assaults with a dangerous weapon, commits as-
sault resulting in serious bodily injury upon, or threatens 
to commit a crime of violence against any individual, or 
attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished, in addi-
tion and consecutive to the punishment provided for any 
other violation of this chapter— 
‘‘(1) for murder, by death or imprisonment for 
any term of years or for life, a fine under this title, 
or both; 
‘‘(2) for kidnapping or sexual assault, by im-
prisonment for any term of years or for life, a fine 
under this title, or both; 
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‘‘(3) for maiming, by imprisonment for any 
term of years or for life, a fine under this title, or 
both; 
‘‘(4) for assault with a dangerous weapon or as-
sault resulting in serious bodily injury, by imprison-
ment for not more than 30 years, a fine under this 
title, or both; 
‘‘(5) for threatening to commit a crime of vio-
lence specified in paragraphs (1) through (4), by im-
prisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine under 
this title, or both; 
‘‘(6) for attempting or conspiring to commit 
murder, kidnapping, maiming, or sexual assault, by 
imprisonment for not more than 30 years, a fine 
under this title, or both; and 
‘‘(7) for attempting or conspiring to commit a 
crime involving assault with a dangerous weapon or 
assault resulting in serious bodily injury, by impris-
onment for not more than 20 years, a fine under 
this title, or both. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) CRIMINAL
STREET
GANG.—The term 
‘criminal street gang’ has the same meaning as in 
section 521 of this title. 
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