18 U.S.C. § 2
Principals
(a)
Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
(b)
Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.
( June 25, 1948, ch. 645 , 62 Stat. 684 ; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 17b , 65 Stat. 717 .)