Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresh from a round of golf and good living at Frank Sinatra's spread in Palm Springs, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew returned to Washington last week to deal with the charges of corruption that have threatened his entire political future. After meeting with his attorneys for most of a day, the Vice President sent a letter to George Beall, the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, offering to let the prosecutor examine Agnew's personal financial records for the past 6'A years "at any time you may desire." Furthermore, said Agnew, he would be happy to submit...
...President's protestations of innocence, however, TIME has learned that in the view of Justice Department officials in Washington, the case against him is growing steadily stronger, and that an indictment appears inevitable. Besides the two Maryland contractors prepared to testify that they delivered extorted campaign contributions to Agnew (TIME, Aug. 20), the Government has a third witness with a similar story. He is Allen I. Green, 49, president of a Maryland engineering firm, a man for many years regarded as one of Agnew's closest friends. Green reportedly has said that he gave kickbacks to Agnew about...
...department has no choice," a Justice official in Washington said. "At least three witnesses have told of delivering cash payoffs to Agnew. The evidence is so strong that the case must be taken to trial." A federal grand jury in Baltimore is expected to vote an indictment next month charging Agnew with, among other things, bribery and extortion...
Green and the Government's two other prime witnesses, Jerome Wolff and Lester Matz, both also engineering consultants and former Agnew associates, have told prosecutors that they delivered to Agnew personally cash kickbacks from their own firms and as many as a score of other state and federal contractors in Maryland. For example, Matz has claimed that on one occasion in 1971 he carried $2,500 right into the Vice President's private office in the Executive Office Building and handed it to Agnew, allegedly in return for Agnew's help in getting one of Matz...
Such gifts may be open to serious conflict-of-interest questions, but nothing about them necessarily involves the crimes for which Agnew has been told he is being investigated-extortion, bribery, tax evasion and conspiracy...