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03x1: 18 U.S.C. § 207(f) and Foreign Entity

January 2, 2003

A particular corporation, owned by a foreign government, is not a “government of a foreign country” under 18 U.S.C. § 207(f)(3) because it does not exercise the functions of a sovereign.

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