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81x28: Former Government Employee Representations Based on Personal Knowledge and 18 U.S.C. § 207

August 21, 1981

A former senior employee would not violate 18 U.S.C. § 207(c) by contacting his former agency within the prohibited one-year period to recommend the appointment of an individual to a position in that agency if the recommendation were based on his personal knowledge of the individual under section 207(i).

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