Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clemente press conference the next day, Nixon fully applauded Agnew's blast at his investigators. Discussion of cases on which grand jury action is pending, the President said, is highly improper because during such probes "all kinds of charges are made which will not stand up in open court." Then, clearly leaving the impression that he was dissatisfied with Richardson's failure to effect total secrecy in the matter, he announced that he had ordered the Attorney General to investigate his department's leaks. Anyone found to have given unauthorized information about the Agnew case...
...Probe. In a reply to Agnew, Richardson dutifully expressed his "dismay" at the unofficial reporting of the case and promised to bring in the FBI to probe it. However, he pointed out, it is not a crime for those with knowledge of an investigation to discuss it until the case is actually being heard by a grand jury-a stage that the inquiry into Agnew's affairs is not expected to reach until after Labor Day. Thus, said Richardson, in any case as explosive as the Vice President's, there may be "no fully effective means" of halting...
...tapes (see following story), and is regarded incorrectly by many Nixon loyalists as out to "get" the President. In addition, unless the President somehow attempts to intervene, it will be Richardson who must ultimately decide whether U.S. Attorney George Beall's Baltimore investigators have gathered enough evidence against Agnew to seek an indictment -and if so, whether the Government should proceed against a Vice President unless he has first been impeached and removed from office. Further, if Nixon or Agnew should try to influence either case, Richardson might well have to deal with conflicts unprecedented in U.S. judicial annals...
...Agnew's supporters are quick to claim that private interests may be at stake as well, namely Richardson's own. They have an exaggerated suspicion that the Attorney General sees himself as a prime contender for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1976 and would like nothing better than to have Agnew knocked out of the running by a scandal. Agnew, his aides contend, shares some of their suspicions about the Attorney General. Richardson says that he refuses to "dignify" such assertions by replying to them. A source close to Richardson maintains that the Attorney General could not profit...
...Test. By then the Baltimore grand jury looking into official corruption was well along in its investigation. Last week the jury returned its first indictment, accusing the Baltimore County executive, Dale Anderson, of having received $47,795 in kickbacks from engineering and consulting firms. Anderson, a Democrat, succeeded Agnew in the job in 1966, when the future Vice President was elected Maryland Governor. Agnew greeted the news of Anderson's expected indictment by issuing a statement that "I find the charges against him totally at variance with my impressions of him and everything I know about...