Crandon v. United States

I agree with the Court that the Government has failed to prove that any of the petitioners violated 18 U. S. C. §209 (a), and that its claim to a common-law remedy premised upon such a violation accordingly must fail. My reasons, however, are somewhat different. I do not think that payments which are made before or after the term of federal employment are necessarily excluded from § 209(a); but I do think that payments which are neither made periodically dur*169ing the term of federal service, nor calculated with reference to periodic compensation, are excluded.

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Subsection (a) of § 209 makes…