Word: agnew
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TIME has learned that yet another piece of evidence against the Vice President has been turned up. Following the visit to Baltimore of the Justice Department's chief criminal prosecutor, Henry E. Petersen, the primary witness against Agnew was given a lie-detector test by FBI polygraph experts. The witness is Jerome Wolff, president of Greiner Environmental Systems Inc. and a former high Agnew aide. He has agreed to testify, in return for limited immunity from prosecution himself, that Agnew has extorted bribes from state and federal contractors. The polygraph showed that Wolff told the truth about personally delivering...
Wolff has turned over to the Government a diary listing some of the payoffs he purportedly delivered to Agnew from Maryland contractors. The diary covers a period from 1967 to 1968, when Agnew was Maryland's Governor and Wolff was chairman of the state's road commission, a job bestowed on him by Agnew. Now Wolff's firm, which he has headed since 1971, is one of eight contractors that have been named as suppliers of the illegal funds in the Anderson indictment. Another of the companies, Matz, Childs & Associates, is partly owned by Lester Matz...
These new developments could hardly have seemed encouraging to Agnew, and Nixon's latest clarification of presidential support was not much help either. Despite his vehement seconding of Agnew's complaint about leaks from Justice, the President was something less than sweeping when it came to expressing his confidence in the Vice President. "I have confidence in the integrity of the Vice President," said Nixon, "and particularly in the performance of the duties that he has had as Vice President and as a candidate for Vice President." That seemed to leave rather large chunks of Agnew...
...AGNEW INVESTIGATION...
September: A federal grand jury in Baltimore will decide whether to indict the Vice President on charges of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax fraud. The best outcome for Nixon, surely, would be for Agnew to escape indictment. That would justify the President's somewhat limited declaration of confidence in him. But it would leave the Vice President tarnished and, to many people, less acceptable than before as an alternative to Nixon...