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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...
...have great confidence in the polygraph. If this machine says a man lied, he lied." So said Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo shortly before submitting to a lie-detector test. Rizzo was being tested along with Peter J. Camiel, city Democratic Party chairman, who accused Rizzo of trying to bribe him in his choice of a Democratic candidate for district attorney. The mayor lied on six of the ten questions, said the lie detector, while Camiel told the truth on all. After the test, Rizzo proclaimed his innocence, reaffirmed his confidence in the polygraph-then demanded...
...have great confidence in the polygraph. If this machine says a man lied, he lied." So said Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo shortly before submitting to a lie-detector test. Rizzo was being tested along with Peter...
...rapidly growing new firm whose promising future could be severely compromised. In some ways, Shapiro has almost as much to lose as Colson. Thus the Colson defense tactics have been designed to ward off even the implication of involvement, using a carefully prepared battle plan including a lie-detector test to bolster Colson's claim of innocence, willing cooperation with investigators and leaks by Colson to the press...
...preventing any Indian tribal council from depriving an Indian of his constitutional rights. Ervin led a reform of the bail system, giving judges the power to release suspects too poor to pay bail but likely to appear for trial. He secured passage of a bill limiting the use of lie-detector tests in screening federal employees...