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...that Attorney General Elliot Richardson had decided that the grand jury should look into the matter. They warned, however, that this does not necessarily mean that Richardson or the Justice Department's prosecutor in the case, U.S. Attorney George Beall, have decided to ask the grand jury to indict Agnew. TIME has learned that the Justice Department is, in fact, leaning toward a unique course: rather than seeking an indictment, it may ask the grand jury after hearing the case to issue a report (technically a "presentment") on its findings and to transmit it to the House of Representatives...
...will file a motion in federal district court seeking a restraining order to block any such testimony. It presumably will ask District Judge Walter E. Hoffman, who was appointed to oversee the Maryland grand jury's work, for the order. Even if the jury does not seek to indict Agnew, and its proceedings are designed to gather evidence for transmittal to the House, the Agnew lawyers will contend that this unprecedented action would be a breach of the Constitution's separation of power between the branches of Government...
...from Maryland contractors to politicians, including Agnew. The Vice President called a news conference -his second since he was notified last month that he was under federal investigation for bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax evasion-to denounce an "outrageous" effort on the part of "some Justice Department officials to indict me in the press." Noting that Richardson had promised to look into any suggestion that Justice officials were talking out of turn, Agnew bluntly demanded that the Attorney General "fulfill that promise and pursue such an investigation vigorously...
September: A federal grand jury in Baltimore will decide whether to indict the Vice President on charges of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax fraud. The best outcome for Nixon, surely, would be for Agnew to escape indictment. That would justify the President's somewhat limited declaration of confidence in him. But it would leave the Vice President tarnished and, to many people, less acceptable than before as an alternative to Nixon...
...Watergate grand jury is scheduled to expire, and by then it will have decided whether to indict former Nixon Associates John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, Dean and others. Just who will be indicted may depend on whether the grand jury and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox get the tapes, which may resolve conflicting testimony from witnesses. If no one important is indicted on Watergate, it would, of course, greatly help Nixon...