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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4283 
To prohibit United States attorneys and assistant United States attorneys 
from acting as or working for corporate monitors for specified periods 
after their service with the Government terminates. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 11, 2009 
Mr. COHEN (for himself, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. 
HOLT, Mr. WATT, Mr. ADLER of New Jersey, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ 
of California, Mr. PALLONE, and Mr. PASCRELL) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To prohibit United States attorneys and assistant United 
States attorneys from acting as or working for corporate 
monitors for specified periods after their service with 
the Government terminates. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transparency and In-
tegrity in Corporate Monitoring Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON POST-EMPLOYMENT SERVICE AS 
CORPORATE MONITOR. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Any person who is a United 
States attorney or an assistant United States attorney, 
who participates in the investigation or prosecution of an 
organization for a criminal offense with respect to which 
a deferred prosecution agreement or a nonprosecution 
agreement is made, and who— 
(1) in the case of a United States attorney, be-
fore the end of the 2-year period beginning on the 
date on which his or her service as such United 
States attorney terminates, or 
(2) in the case of an assistant United States at-
torney, before the end of the 1-year period beginning 
on the date on which his or her service as such as-
sistant United States attorney terminates, 
acts as or is employed by a corporate monitor with respect 
to that deferred prosecution agreement or that non-
prosecution agreement, shall be subject to the penalties 
under subsection (b). 
(b) PENALTIES.— 
(1) CIVIL
PENALTY.—The Attorney General 
may bring a civil action in the appropriate United 
States district court against any person who engages 
in conduct described in subsection (a) and, upon 
proof of such conduct by a preponderance of the evi-
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organization to conditionally defer prosecution of 
that organization in a criminal case in which charges 
are filed. 
(2) NONPROSECUTION AGREEMENT.—The term 
‘‘nonprosecution agreement’’ means an agreement 
between a Federal prosecutor and an organization to 
conditionally decide not to file criminal charges 
against the organization. 
(3) ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘‘organization’’ 
means a person or entity other than an individual. 
(4) CORPORATE
MONITOR.—The term ‘‘cor-
porate monitor’’ means a person or entity outside 
the Department of Justice that is selected to oversee 
the implementation of a deferred prosecution agree-
ment or nonprosecution agreement. 
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