https://www.gao.gov/products/438800

B-217096: Mar 11, 1985

PAY - RETIRED - FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT - CONGRESSIONAL CONSENT - PUB.L. 95-105 - APPLICABILITY DIGEST: RETIRED MARINE CORPS OFFICERS WHO ARE ATTORNEYS EITHER EMPLOYED BY OR "OF COUNSEL" TO A LAW FIRM INCORPORATED IN VIRGINIA AS A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION MAY NOT SERVE AS LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE OFFICE OF THE SAUDI MILITARY ATTACHE. THE FACT THAT THEY ARE EMPLOYEES OF THE PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION DOES NO...

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B-217096: Mar 11, 1985

A decision was requested as to whether certain retired Marine Corps officers were required to obtain the consent of Congress before acting as legal counsel to an agency of the Saudi Arabian Government. GAO held that, while the attorneys were representatives of a corporation rather than individual counsels to the Saudi Government, the laws of the state in which the corporation was formed clearly pr...