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93x11: Applicability of 26 U.S.C. § 1043 to Sale by a Government Official

May 7, 1993

Discusses rules for divestiture, contemplated sale of asset management company, and states that a divestiture cannot leave the official with a substantive stake in the company which is subject to the future performance of its business affairs, as that would provide an unfair or unintended benefit to the government official.

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