Robbing a bank in New York City is absolutely illegal, but it won’t be the State of New York who prosecutes you for it.
Because deposit accounts in American banks are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, it’s the FBI that has jurisdiction in bank robbery cases.
Federal penalties for bank robbery can carry a sentence of up to 20 years for each count, with enormous fines as part of the sentence.
And because bank robbery typically includes threats, the use of a firearm or other weapon, and other tools of the trade, defendants are often charged with a variety of offenses, not simply bank robbery.
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