All this comes to mind when considering questions surrounding President Trump, his family, and his business associates. Mueller has impanelled at least two grand juries.
One point in the investigation, reportedly, is whether the money Flynn took actually came from the Turkish government or associated entities, and whether Flynn, who has denied any wrongdoing, properly disclosed his work for foreign interests.
The same day, he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political corruption. Agnew, a Republican, was elected chief executive of Baltimore County in In , he became governor of Maryland, an office he held until his nomination as the Republican vice presidential candidate in Reelected with Nixon in , Agnew resigned on October 10, , after the U.
Justice Department uncovered widespread evidence of his political corruption, including allegations that his practice of accepting bribes had continued into his tenure as U.
He died at the age of 77 on September 17, Under the process decreed by the 25th Amendment to the Constitution , President Nixon was instructed to the fill vacant office of vice president by nominating a candidate who then had to be approved by both houses of Congress. He became the 38th president of the United States on August 9, , after the escalating Watergate affair caused Nixon to resign. Agnew announced his resignation in the national interest, acknowledging that the plea amounted to a felony conviction.
He worked as a consultant to international corporate enterprises after being disbarred by the state of Maryland in To put it simply, while demand has recovered strongly during the post-pandemic phase, production has failed to pick up.
Earlier, the govt had sought to downplay these villages along LAC while right-wing websites called them fake. Raymond Group patriarch Vijaypat decided to hand over a 37 per cent stake from his company to his son. For far too long our mind space has been monopolised by Pakistan, when we should have been focusing more closely on China.
It is a well-known fact that prohibition has never worked anywhere. Such a plea, while not an admission of guilt, subjects a defendant to a judgment of conviction on the charge.
Judge Hoffman sentenced Mr. The judge declared from the bench that he would have sent Mr. Agnew to prison had not Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson personally interceded, arguing that "leniency is justified. In his dramatic courtroom statement, Mr. Agnew declared that he was innocent of any other wrongdoing but that it would "seriously prejudice the national interest" to involve himself in a protracted struggle before the courts or Congress. Agnew also cited the national interest in a letter to President Nixon saying that he was resigning.
Agnew in a "Dear Ted" letter made public by the White House. The letter hailed Mr. Agnew for "courage and candor," praised his patriotism and dedication, and expressed Mr. Nixon's "great sense of personal loss. The resignation automatically set in motion, for the first time, the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, under which the Republican President must nominate a successor who will be subject to confirmation by a majority vote in both houses of congress, where Democrats predominate.
Until a successor is confirmed and sworn in, the Speaker of the House, Carl Albert Democrat of Oklahoma, will be first in line of succession to the Presidency. Agnew's sudden resignation came only 11 days after he made an emotional declaration to a Los Angeles audience: "I will not resign if indicted!
I will not resign if indicted! The first occasion was in , when John C. Calhoun stepped down after he was chosen to fill a Senate seat from South Carolina. Agnew's decision appeared to have been based on personal, rather than political or historic, considerations. Close and authoritative associates of Mr. Agnew said that, contrary to official White House denials, Mr. Nixon at least twice asked him to resign after it was disclosed on Aug.
The requests were said to have been spurned by Mr. Agnew until sometime in the last week. According to some associates, Mr. Agnew was advised by his defense attorneys that the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service had obtained "incontrovertible evidence" of unreported income while he held office in Maryland.
Even so, the Vice President's closest associates had expected him to fight the accusations or at least to continue to seek a forum to try, as he did in his courtroom statement today, to place the accusations within the context of "a long-established pattern of political fund raising" in his home state.
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