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Hammerman tried to collect between 3% and 5% of a contract's total value but is described as having been willing to accept "any reasonable sum." He "generally held Mr. Agnew's 50% share in a safe-deposit box until Mr. Agnew called for it." The Governor would do so by telephoning Hammerman to ask how many "papers" his friend was holding. Says the summary: "It was understood between Mr. Agnew and Hammerman that the term 'paper' referred to $1,000 in cash...
...what about the modern problem, asked Ehrlichman, of, say, an imminent nuclear attack and a safe-deposit box that contains key enemy plans? "Do we say a man's home is his castle, his safe deposit is his castle, and so let the bombs come...
...actions of the Watergate lawyers. Whatever they did, the argument goes, was done for the President as client. That, too, is a poor justification. In a 1967 Virginia case, Attorney Richard Ryder took stolen money and a sawed-off shotgun from his client and stored them in his own safe-deposit box. A U.S. district court, citing Benjamin Cardozo's observation that "the privilege takes flight if the relation is abused," ruled that the special lawyer-client relationship could not be invoked in circumstances that so clearly involved the obstruction of justice. Ryder was temporarily suspended from practice...
...story, Tim Findley did not check his mailbox at the San Francisco Chronicle until 3:30 in the afternoon. Even then, he did not bother to open a letter addressed to him from Chicago until 5. Printed neatly by hand, it warned that bombs had been planted in safe-deposit boxes in nine banks in New York, Chicago and San Francisco by a radical political group calling itself "Movement in Amerika."* The letter went on to list the names of the banks as well as the numbers of the boxes; enclosed was a key to one of the boxes...
...nation is not likely to be brought to a standstill by such tactics. The manager of one of the banks where a bomb had been placed said he had much more trouble when an irate customer put a dead fish in a safe-deposit box; the vault stank for weeks...