Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Agnew

On October 10, 1973, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Spiro T. Agnew, a member of the Maryland Bar and the respondent in this disciplinary proceeding, having just moments before resigned as Vice President of the United States, 1 entered a plea of nolo contendere to a criminal information which charged him with violating the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1954, § 7201. More specifically, it was alleged that Mr. Agnew did “willfully and knowingly attempt to evade and defeat a large part of the income tax due and owing by him and his wife to the United…