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...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 funds extorted from contractors...
Green and the Government's two other prime witnesses, Jerome Wolff and Lester Matz, both also engineering consultants and former Agnew associates, have told prosecutors that they delivered to Agnew personally cash kickbacks from their own firms and as many as a score of other state and federal contractors in Maryland. For example, Matz has claimed that on one occasion in 1971 he carried $2,500 right into the Vice President's private office in the Executive Office Building and handed it to Agnew, allegedly in return for Agnew's help in getting one of Matz...
...Jerome Wolff, 55, president of Greiner Environmental Systems, Inc., an affiliate of J.E. Greiner Co. Inc., one of Maryland's biggest construction consulting firms. Wolff was named chairman of the Maryland roads commission by Agnew in 1966 and later (1969-70) went to Washington as an assistant to the Vice President on scientific matters...
TIME has learned that at least two of Beall's witnesses, Wolff and Matz, have accused Agnew of extorting campaign contributions from state and federal contractors in Maryland. Sources close to the investigation said that some of the rake-off methods were quite sophisticated, including one plan in which contractors favored with government business awarded fake bonuses to employees in the know, always being careful to deduct the proper withholding taxes, and then scooped them back for secret donations to politicians. The contractors in question worked on, among other things, state roads and two huge bridge-building projects...
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...