E Expanding the provision limiting the liability of financial institutions providing stolen, forged or fraudulent check information for use by the crime alert network or law enforcement agencies investigating crime to employees or company agents of the financial institution and to providing information to check verification services or consumer reporting agencies; imposing a penalty for providing false information to financial institutions relating to lost or stolen checks or debit cards; increasing the penalty for the crime of identity theft; creating the crime of possession or sale of stolen or counterfeit checks, penalties, subjecting the stolen or counterfeit checks to forfeiture and including the more severe offenses under the RICO (racketeering) law (ra, ja)