Opinion ID: 698181
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Heading: Admission of Code of Conduct Manual

Text: 18 At trial, the government introduced a document consisting of an attestation signed by Miller on September 29, 1986, on the letterhead of Manufacturers Hanover Investment Corporation, stating that he had read and agreed to comply with the attached conflict of interest policy statement, and an attached Code of Conduct of Manufacturers Hanover Corporation. The document came from the files of Miller's employer. Miller argues that the document was improperly admitted because the government did not establish all the requirements for the business records exception to the hearsay rule. This claim fails because the Code was not hearsay in the first place. It was not introduced to prove the truth of the matters asserted in the Code. It was introduced, as Miller acknowledges, to show Miller's awareness that receiving gratuities from Dolgaard, who sold investments to the Trust Fund, was improper and wrong. Fed.R.Evid. 801(c).