Reading Room Document

Expense Reimbursement in Connection with Chairman Stone’s Trip to Indonesia

This opinion concludes that Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman James M. Stone's proposed trip to Indonesia as a consultant for Harvard, which is reimbursed by Harvard from its own consultancy contract with Indonesia, does not violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, since the reimbursement provided by the contract cannot be said to be "from a foreign government." The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/936091/download.

August 11, 1980