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Local politics bore you? Remember that spire Agnew began on a local school board in Maryland and that Watergate begin in small cities and towns across the nation. The "new political morality" that Agnew says defeated him, began in Cambridge in 1971 with the common Slate. It could...
Fine Irony. Richardson also explained that Agnew could not be prosecuted by the Federal Government for any of the charges listed in the 40 pages of evidence, but said he could be tried by Maryland's courts-although the Attorney General made it clear that he hoped that this would not happen. And Richardson pointed out that Agnew could be brought to trial in a civil suit by the Internal Revenue Service for back taxes, including not only those dodged in 1967 but for any evaded in other years up through 1972. In addition to having...
...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...
...memorandum filed with the federal district court in Maryland before the resignation, the Justice Department-some of whose officials had also been subpoenaed by Agnew's attorneys-set forth some stinging arguments against this kind of judicial interference. The department pointed out that "publicity about the criminal investigation of any newsworthy person is all too likely, and some of that publicity will almost inevitably be unfavorable." But the department argued that news stories do not necessarily prevent fair proceedings and noted that grand jurors' exposure to prejudicial publicity "has never been considered a proper ground even for dismissal...