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...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...
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...