1. Tax crimes—6 years

2. Securities and commodities fraud—6 years

3. Damage to religious property—7 years

4. Nuclear materials offenses—8 years

5. Kidnapping of a member of Congress, the Supreme Court or the president’s cabinet—8 years

6. Damaging certain computers—8 years

7. Murder of foreign officials or official guests—8 years

8. Torture by a law enforcement officer—8 years

9. Use of weapons of mass destruction—8 years

10. Use of variola virus in an act of terrorism not resulting in death of serious injury—8 years

11. Participation in a foreign atomic weapons program—8 years

12. Bank fraud—10 years

13. Making a false statement in application or use of passport—10 years

14. Slave trafficking—10 years

15. Recruiting of using child soldiers—10 years

16. Major art theft—20 years

-David Wallechinsky

To Learn More:

Statutes of Limitation in Federal Criminal Cases: An Overview (by Charles Doyle, Congressional Research Service) (pdf)