48 U.S.C. § 1406f
Judicial process; title of criminal prosecutions
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 37, 49 Stat. 1817.)
All judicial process shall run in the name of “United States of America, scilicet, the President of the United States”, and all penal or criminal prosecutions in the local courts shall be conducted in the name of and by authority of “the People of the Virgin Islands of the United States.”