28 U.S.C. § 528 — Disqualification of officers and employees of the Department of Justice
submitted 48 years ago by Pub. L. 95-521 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 80 words · no verdicts yet
The Attorney General must require Justice Department personnel to step aside from an investigation or prosecution when participation could create a personal, financial, or political conflict, or its appearance. The rules may make a willful violation grounds for removal.
The Attorney General must issue rules and regulations requiring any Justice Department* officer or employee—including a United States attorney or a member of that attorney’s staff—to be disqualified from a particular investigation or prosecution if participation could create a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest, or the appearance of one. The rules and regulations may provide that willfully violating any of them results in removal from office.
The Attorney General shall promulgate rules and regulations which require the disqualification of any officer or employee of the Department* of Justice, including a United States attorney or a member of such attorney’s staff, from participation in a particular investigation or prosecution if such participation may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest, or the appearance thereof. Such rules and regulations may provide that a willful violation of any provision thereof shall result in removal from office.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 95–521, title VI, § 603(a), Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1874.)
- 1978Enacted · Pub. L. 95-521 · 92 Stat. 1874
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