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89x18: Employees Serving as Officers of an Organization and Imputed Acceptance of a Gift from a Prohibited Source

October 20, 1989

An agency employee is considered to have indirectly accepted such a gift if a private organization for which he serves as an officer receives cash from an agency prohibited source, unless the officer does not participate in the decision to accept the grant.

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