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81x34: Representations by General Partners of a Government Employee and 18 U.S.C. § 207(g)

November 23, 1981

18 U.S.C. § 207(g) prohibits a government commissioner's general partners from representing clients before the commissioner’s agency at any level.  Recusal by the commissioner in any matter in which one of the partners represented a client would not have the effect of removing the matter from the under the commissioner’s "official responsibility."

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