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B-160040 1 (1978-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfmk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a.. * CECIUION t . 1 ; THE CCMPTRC.L.4 CIP THk! UNIT ' WASHINGTON, LW,. Naubert CENERAL TATES 20548 FILE: B-160040 DATE: January 3, 1973 MATTER OF: Charles V. Dodge - Attorney's Fees DIGEBT: Transferred employee made settlement on purchase and sale of residences before April 27, 1977, date of GAO decision in George W. Lay, 56 Comp. Gn. 561, which modified the requirements for reimburse- met of legal fees incurred incident to residence transactions. Since Lay is prcspective only, full itemization is prerequisite to reimbursement. Claim is denied because employee faile. to submit itemized statement of legal This action is in response to a requesat dated October 26, 1.97','. by Mr. Edwin J. Post, Chief of the Accounting Section, Office of the Controller, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice, for reconsideration of our decision in Charles W. Dod., B-160040, July 13, 1976. Specifically, Mr. Dodge,a DEA employee, hs appealed the portion of that decision which disallowed hi~s claim Vor reimbursement of attorney's fee-' incurred in connnctlon with the purchase and sale cf residences in'ident to a perrnanent change of station. The facts in this case are fully set fcrth in our previous decdsion dated July 13, 1976, concerning this claim, and need not be reiterated here except as necessary. In the prior actfon, Mr. Dodge had claimed attorney's fees in the amount of $145 and $304.50 for the sale and purchase transactions, respectively. Neither fee qas itemized. We denied reimbursement, stating: The pertinent regulation here is FTR para. 2-6.2c (May 1973) which specifies those legal and related expenses which may be reimbursed. Only those parts of the attorney's fees that represent services of the type enumerated in the regulation are reimbursable. -i-i O .C CP

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