Stars of that podcast are the three federal prosecutors from baltimore who ran the agnew investigation, who amassed all the evidence against him, enough to put him in jail for a long time before the plea deal let him escape jail in exchange for leaving public service. those three prosecutors are barney skolnik, tim baker, and ron liebman. if anyone in the country has been here before it is these guys. joining us now live is one of those men from the center of the story ron liebman, former assistant u.s. attorney in baltimore. thanks for being here tonight. great pleasure. thank you. first let me ask you if i got anything wrong there. i know i didn t tell the whole story but the parts i told did i get anything wrong or the wrong way around? no. you got it right. it is a bed rock principle that no one is above the law. there s only one system of law for everybody. how did you guys square that
Now, the justice department had internal fights about this. there was gnashing of teeth and rending of garments but in the end they decided the interests of justice would be best served if they told the world what they believed he had done and got him out of office thus preventing a nationwide crisis and potential collapse of our constitutional system of government with the president trying to run the country from prison. i mean, here was the front page of the new york times. spiro agnew resigned as vice president of the united states today under an agreement with the agreement of the department of justice to admit evasion of federal income taxes and avoid imprisonment. the stunning development ending a federal grand jury investigation of mr. agnew and probably terminating his political career shocked his closest associates and precipitated an immediate search by president nixon for a