Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the Government presumably has evidence that contractors' payments to Agnew were demanded in return for specific favors and were paid and collected in that spirit rather than as legitimate campaign funds. As for Agnew's offer to open his personal financial books, sources close to the case point out that cash payments used for campaign purposes probably would not find their way into Agnew's accounts...
What is puzzling to some investigators is the comparatively paltry amount of money involved. Justice Department officials have declined to provide an estimate of the total amount under investigation, but one of them says: "It's less than you'd think. Agnew wasn't greedy; he was quite cheap." Indeed, of the payments so far alleged, only a few exceeded $10,000, and many were between $2,000 and $2,500. In states where corruption thrives on a major-league scale - New Jersey, or Illinois, where a secretary of state died in 1970 with $800,000 stashed...
Nevertheless, Agnew has apparently realized the gravity of the Government's case against him. TIME has learned that the Vice President has sought the help of Nixon's Wa tergate defense team (Lawyers J. Fred Buzhardt, Leonard Garment and Charles Alan Wright) in preparing a constitutional defense that would prevent his having to go on trial any time soon. The White House lawyers were specifically asked to ex plore the possibility that the Vice President might adopt Nix on's own argument that a President (or Vice President) cannot be criminally prosecuted until after he has been...
...continuing, rather paranoid hunt for secret plots or motives behind Ag new's sudden legal difficulties, his sup porters have advanced the notion that Richardson may be the culprit: to wreck Agnew's presidential hopes and further his own chance for the G.O.P. nomi nation in 1976. Last week the chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Di vision, Henry E. Petersen, drove to Baltimore to inspect the evidence against Agnew collected by Beall and his three assistants, Barnet D. Skolnik, Russell T. Baker Jr. and Ronald S. Liebman...
...Usual. The 23-member grand jury investigating the kickback conspiracy continued to hear testimony, but it found itself temporarily without a judge when U.S. District Judge C. Stanley Blair, who served as Agnew's chief of staff during the first two years of his vice presidency, understandably asked to be relieved of the job of presiding over the inquiry. Because of various other associations with Agnew or with Maryland politics, the other judges in the district declined to take on Blair's assignment. At week's end, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Clement F. Haynsworth...