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Still in Shape. Ford also was accused by former Washington Lobbyist Robert N. Winter-Berger, in his book The Washington Payoff, of being involved in some small stock deals having to do with his membership on the board of the Old Kent Bank and Trust Co. of Grand Rapids. Winter-Berger also claims that Ford did unspecified favors for an unnamed client hi return for $50,000 donated to Republican candidates- but not Ford-in 1970. The minority leader has denied both accusations, and almost no one takes them seriously...
...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...
...known to generations of Latin Americans as "el Pulpo" (the Octopus). The Talmudist is Eli Black, who in 1970 merged United Fruit into a food-based conglomerate that he was assembling, and has proceeded to change its operations, its image, and even its name-to United Brands Co. The payoff: United Brands has gone from a net loss of $24 million in 1971 to a net profit of $10 million for this year's first half alone. Last year sales rose 13% to nearly $1.7 billion, less than a third of it from bananas...
Since both Wolff and Matz, Agnew's primary accusers, are themselves believed to be deeply involved in the payoff scandal, they are presumably being forced by the Government into the position of being "willing to give up Agnew to save themselves," as one observer bluntly put it. Wolff was said to be especially anxious to make a deal and avoid being forced to testify under limited, or so-called "use" immunity...
...more significant queries for Nixon raised by the Dean testimony are these: Did he discuss Executive clemency with Ehrlichman and Colson, as Dean claims? Did he congratulate Dean on helping to limit the Watergate indictments? Did he scoff at the $1,000,000 in payoff money, as the White House claims? Is there a tape, as Dean suspected, of the meeting in which Nixon claimed to have been joking about the $1,000,000 in silence money...