[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[H.R. 487 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.487

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                                 An Act


 
                    For the relief of Eugene Makuch.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PAYMENT.

    In consideration of the fact that Eugene Makuch--
        (1) served as a foreign counterintelligence agent and dedicated 
    his life to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its 
    efforts at the height of the Cold War to combat communism, the 
    Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB), and the Soviet Union, 
    and
        (2) has not received employment assistance or health, social 
    security, or pension benefits, despite assurances that he would 
    receive such benefits upon his retirement,
the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of funds not otherwise 
appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000 to Eugene Makuch of East Amherst, 
New York, in compensation for the lifetime aggregate value of benefits 
earned but not received by Eugene Makuch.

SEC. 2. SATISFACTION OF CLAIM.

    The sum paid under section 1 shall be in full satisfaction of any 
claims that Eugene Makuch may have against the United States arising 
out of his service for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ATTORNEY FEES.

    Not more than 10 percent of the sum paid under section 1 shall be 
paid to or received by any agent or attorney for services rendered in 
connection with the recovery of such sum. Any person who violates this 
section shall be fined under title 18, United States Code.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.