Reading Room Document

Honoraria for Speeches, etc.

In this memo, the OLC advised that an employee of the Department of Justice could not accept a fee from an outside source on account of public appearance, deposit it in her personal account, and thereafter donate it for charitable purposes according to a literal reading of the applicable regulation. The OLC gave this advice based on the assumption that the public appearance was part of the official duties of the employee. However, the OLC stated that the employee might suggest the outside source pay the fee to the charitable organization directly.

June 4, 1974