Source: https://www2.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/Legal%20Advisories?OpenView&RestrictToCategory=%3Cbr/%3E%3Cstrong%3E1986%3C/strong%3E%3Cbr/%3E%3Chr/%3E
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 08:59:12+00:00

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Mere membership in an organization does not, without other personal financial ties, require that an employee recuse himself from actions affected the organization pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 208(a).
18 U.S.C. § 207 applies to the employees and members of the Council of the District of Columbia, even though the Council provides a legislative function.
18 U.S.C. § 207 did not prohibit a former government employee from representing a company in seeking a contract that was related to his former duties where he was not personally and substantially involved in the matter on which his services were being requested.
18 U.S.C. § 207(a) does not prohibit a former government employee from making representations to his former agency in response to an RFP that he had reviewed as an agency employee but which was issued after he left government employment.
Several statutes and regulations impose restrictions on the business activities and compensation of employee who was President and CEO of a corporation.
An agency can allow the acceptance of official travel expenses associated with on-site inspections and public meetings, even when the entity defraying the expenses has interests that could be affected by the agency’s activities; however, an agency should consider imposing some limitations.
An agency’s employees may accept discounts that a corporation was offering to all federal government employees for both official and leisure travel.
18 U.S.C. § 207(g) bars a government employee’s business partner from engaging in representational activities related to matters in which the employee participates or is under his official responsibility. 18 U.S.C. §§ 203 and 205 could also impact the employee’s partnership activities and his agency may apply further restrictions.
Investment clubs are not appropriate subjects for 18 U.S.C. § 208(b)(2) waivers because the circumstances surrounding the management and portfolio policies of investment clubs vary widely. However, an agency may announce in its regulations that waivers will be granted for investment clubs on a case-by-case basis under certain conditions.
18 U.S.C. § 207 does not apply to a former agency employee who left the agency to join the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government agency for purposes of applying the criminal conflict of interest statute. The statutory conflict of interest restriction did not apply because the matters were intra-governmental.

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