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Eight weeks ago, after it became known that the Vice President was under investigation for alleged criminal offenses while he was Governor of Maryland, TIME and other publications printed stories about the nature and seriousness of the charges. As we indicated in our stories, the information came from officials in the Justice Department and from other sources. The Vice President argues that these reports are bound to prejudice the grand jury and deprive him of a fair hearing. U.S. District Judge Walter E. Hoffman has authorized Mr. Agnew's lawyers to subpoena newsmen in order to find...
...part, read one of the more unusual directives ever issued by a U.S. federal judge. The order, by Judge Walter E. Hoffman, came last week in response to complaints by lawyers representing Vice President Spiro Agnew, who is being investigated by a Maryland grand jury for allegedly taking bribes and for other misconduct. The lawyers had contended that the grand jury's investigation should be halted because a campaign of "malicious, immoral and illegal" leaks by Justice Department officials was designed to deprive the Vice President of his "basic rights to due process and fair hearing...
Spiro Agnew may not have been a household word when Presidential candidate Richard Nixon nominated the Maryland governor for the vice presidency five years ago. But Agnew's sudden exit from office this week may have won a dubious place in history for the man whose vice presidential fame and presidential aspirations were founded on his public image as a defender of law and order...
Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 told the court that the Justice Department investigation of Maryland politics "established a pattern of substantial cash payments to the defendant Agnew during the period when he served as governor of Maryland [1966-1968] in return for engineering contracts with the State of Maryland...
...issues on which he had campaigned, continually met with black leaders throughout the State in attempts to head off racial problems and took a moderate position on crime and punishment. As a result his support among the coalition increased and he had few problems with the Democratic controlled Maryland Congress...