18 U.S.C. § 1906 : US Code - Section 1906: Disclosure of information from a bank examination report

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1906 : US Code - Section 1906: Disclosure of information from a bank examination report

Whoever, being an examiner, public or private, or a Government
Accountability Office employee with access to bank examination
report information under section 714 of title 31, discloses the
names of borrowers or the collateral for loans of any member bank
of the Federal Reserve System, any bank insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, any branch or agency of a foreign
bank (as such terms are defined in paragraphs (1) and (3) of
section 1(b) of the International Banking Act of 1978), or any
organization operating under section 25 or section 25(a) (!1) of
the Federal Reserve Act, examined by him or subject to Government
Accountability Office audit under section 714 of title 31 to other
than the proper officers of such bank, branch, agency, or
organization, without first having obtained the express permission
in writing from the Comptroller of the Currency as to a national
bank or a Federal branch or Federal agency (as such terms are
defined in paragraphs (5) and (6) of section 1(b) of the
International Banking Act of 1978), the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System as to a State member bank, an uninsured
State branch or State agency (as such terms are defined in
paragraphs (11) and (12) of section 1(b) of the International
Banking Act of 1978), or an organization operating under section 25
or section 25(a) (!1) of the Federal Reserve Act, or the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation as to any other insured bank,
including any insured branch (as defined in section 3(s) of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act),,(!2) or from the board of directors
of such bank or organization, except when ordered to do so by a
court of competent jurisdiction, or by direction of the Congress of
the United States, or either House thereof, or any committee of
Congress or either House duly authorized or as authorized by
section 714 of title 31 shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year or both.