1/ Spiro Agnew - Scandal and Resignation -- Per bit.ly/3dTZBcN -- ,”Agnew’s downfall began in the summer of 1973, when he was investigated in connection with accusations of ...
2/ ... extortion, bribery, and income-tax violations relating chiefly to his tenure as governor of Maryland.-- Per bit.ly/3dTZBcN -- Faced with federal indictments, Agnew fought the charges, arguing that the allegations were false, ...
3/ ... that a sitting vice president could not be indicted, and that the only way he could be removed from office was by impeachment.-- Per bit.ly/3dTZBcN -- After the solicitor general released a brief asserting that sitting vice presidents could be indicted,...
4/ ... Agnew launched an attack on the administration and vowed not to resign -- Per bit.ly/3dTZBcN --With Nixon in danger of impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, the administration sought to remove Agnew from the presidential line of succession, and…
5/ …secret plea bargaining took place -- Per bit.ly/3dTZBcN --between Agnew’s lawyers and a federal judge. Agnew resigned the vice presidency on October 10, 1973, and appeared in United States District Court in Baltimore on the same day to...
6/ ... plead nolo contendere to a single federal count of failing to report on his income-tax return $29,500 in income that he had received in 1967, while governor of Maryland-- Per bit.ly/3dTZBcN --.
7/ Acknowledging that the plea amounted to a felony conviction, Agnew declared that he had resigned in the national interest-- Per bit.ly/3dTZBcN --. He was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation.
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