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...Spiro Agnew, as Governor of Maryland, did take kickbacks from contractors-and some of the money was paid to him in his Vice President's office at the White House. Now he must repay the state $248,735, representing kickbacks of $147,500 plus $101,235 interest computed at 6% a year. So ruled Bruce Williams, a Maryland state judge, after a one-week civil trial that in effect replaced the criminal trial Agnew escaped when he resigned as Vice President in October...
...that time, Agnew pleaded no contest to a charge of income tax evasion and paid a $10,000 fine; federal prosecutors in return dropped all other potential criminal charges against him. Ever since, Agnew has loudly maintained his innocence. But in 1976, three Maryland taxpayers filed an unusual suit, contending that the alleged kickbacks properly belonged to the state. The state joined the taxpayers as a party to the proceedings and eventually took over the case...
Despite the circumstances of his resignation, Agnew has always denied that he took any kickbacks. His hopes of making this contention hold up in court have now been damaged by two developments. First, Judge Bruce Williams ordered Agnew's attorney to give the plaintiffs seven years' worth of his client's tax returns, including the unpublished record of the 1973 tax settlement. Then, Co-Defendant Jerome Wolff agreed to testify against Agnew during the trial. As head of Maryland's roads commission between 1967 and 1969, Wolff was accused of receiving some of the same kickbacks...
...Agnew not only faces a possible $350,000 judgment but also must contend with a multimillion-dollar libel suit filed by a former campaign manager and personal attorney who was named in his 1980 book Go Quietly . . .or Else. However, owing mainly to the international investment deals he packages, Agnew is believed to have a hefty in come. He owns a condominium in a waterfront high-rise in Ocean City, Md., and a lavish home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he surfaces sporadically to trim his golf handicap...