Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 440: Mail contracts

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A Postal Service employee who has a financial interest in a mail-carrying contract or acts as an agent for a contractor faces a fine and/or imprisonment up to one year.

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Whoever, being a person employed in the Postal Service, becomes interested in any contract for carrying the mail, or acts as agent, with or without compensation, for any contractor or person offering to become a contractor in any business before the Postal Service, shall be fined under this title 1 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. 1 See 1994 Amendment note below.

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