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87x5: 18 U.S.C. § 207 Restrictions on Former U.S. Attorney's Representation of Individual

March 27, 1987

OGE advised an agency ethics official that 18 U.S.C. § 207(b)(i) would prohibit a former US Attorney for two years following government service from representing an individual in matters relating to a plea agreement and narcotics prosecution in an investigation in which his former office and various other federal districts were involved.

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