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SWBTATTReg

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2. I don't think Agnew got indicted but someone else here might know...

Reply to Miigwech (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 08:00 PM

Jan 2019

Dec 21, 2010 · SPIRO AGNEW SCANDAL. After Nixon and Agnew were elected to a second term, Agnew became the focus of an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Maryland for financial irregularities while he held state office. Rather than face trial, Agnew resigned and entered a plea of no contest to charges of evading income tax.

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Can a Vice President get indicted? [View all] Miigwech Jan 2019 OP

Wasn't Spiro Agnew? RockRaven Jan 2019 #1

I don't think Agnew got indicted but someone else here might know... SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #2

Agnew LiberalArkie Jan 2019 #7

Only because he agreed to resign and plead no contest to a tax chage minutes before he was to hlthe2b Jan 2019 #9

Well, he knew he was guilty FakeNoose Jan 2019 #17

yes onenote Jan 2019 #3

Somebody would have to find Pence, first. And then wake him up. Siwsan Jan 2019 #4

You could ask Agnew if he was available. Sneederbunk Jan 2019 #5

My friend said yes. He had to ask his mother first, but still..... dameatball Jan 2019 #6

Spiro Agnew's prosecutors certainly thought so. His last second resignation "deal" was hlthe2b Jan 2019 #8

Did they call it Nolo Contendere or something like that ArnoldLayne Jan 2019 #13

nolo contendere (Latin for "no contest") hlthe2b Jan 2019 #14

Ok thank you I remembered it was something like that. It's ArnoldLayne Jan 2019 #15

Listen if you can to Rachel Maddow's podcast on this, called "Bag Man" hlthe2b Jan 2019 #16

So you were a teenager too around Watergate 1973-75. ArnoldLayne Jan 2019 #18

pre-teen... Yes, my early musical awakening started in 1968, but only got better into that period. hlthe2b Jan 2019 #19

Mine too in the late 60's I was a Preteen Boy with 5 older ArnoldLayne Jan 2019 #20

Yes. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2019 #10

Spiro Agnew jberryhill Jan 2019 #11

Yes, already precedence for it. berni_mccoy Jan 2019 #12