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83x15: Establishing a Trust for Government Employees

October 19, 1983

OGE provides guidance on whether payments to government employees from a private trust would violate 18 U.S.C. § 209(a). In this case, the only eligible recipients for grants from the trust would be defined by their federal employment. This would give rise to an inference that such payments were made as outside compensation for Government services.

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