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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in Part II of its opinion that a complainant in litigation against the United States does not violate either 18 U.S.C. § 203 or § 205 as a result of accepting attorney’s fees for the services of an attorney who is now a current Federal employee if the authority for paying such fees requires that they be paid to the complainant, not the attorney.
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