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Thus, with fine irony, Spiro Agnew's immediate and future need is likely to be cash. With his conviction for a felony, he is likely to be disbarred. Nor can he count on the "defense fund" he was raising to carry on the fight. The donors have been invited to ask for refunds...
...plea, the Government would commonly file away forever the sheaf of evidence amassed against a defendant for possible trial purposes. Attorney General Elliot Richardson insisted that a full summary of the Government's case against the Vice President be attached to the court record and thus made public. Agnew reluctantly agreed, later pointing out that he did not admit to any of the allegations contained in the document. Nevertheless, the extraordinary, 40-page "exposition" prepared by U.S. Attorney George Beall and his staff constitutes a tightly woven, damning case against Agnew. Its high points...
...Government stated that its primary evidence against the Vice President came from four witnesses. Two were political associates of Agnew's: Jerome B. Wolff, 55, chairman of the Maryland road commission during Agnew's tenure as Governor (1967-69), and I.H. ("Bud") Hammerman II, 49, described as "a highly successful real estate developer and mortgage banker," who also served as a prominent Agnew fund raiser. They testified that they cooperated with Agnew in a systematic scheme to shake down engineers and road-building contractors in return for favored treatment in contract awards. The other two witnesses were Contractors...
...Maryland political scene was described as a sordid hothouse of corruption in which the payoff system had been well established long before Agnew's emergence as a promising officeholder. At the time of his election as Baltimore county executive (1962), "it was well known in the business community that engineers generally, and the smaller engineering firms in particular, had to pay in order to obtain contracts from the county." State contractors shaken down during Agnew's term as Governor "were not surprised that payments would be necessary because it was generally understood that engineers had been making such...
Early in his term as county executive, the Government claims, Agnew befriended the wealthy Hammerman and "often" discussed his financial situation. "Mr. Agnew complained about it, and told Hammerman that he had not accumulated any wealth before he assumed public office, had no inheritance, and as a public official received what he considered a small salary," the summary continues. "Mr. Agnew believed, moreover, that his public position required him to adopt a standard of living beyond his means and that his political ambitions required him to build a financially strong political organization." ∙ After Agnew was elected Governor, he told...