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WOLFF has been a resident of Maryland for about 25 years. , WOLFF first met SPIRO T, AGNEW in approximately 1958 or 1959 when AGNEW was a member of the Board of Appeals which heard such matters as zoning. During this period WOLFF was Assistant Director of Public Works handling mainly sanita- -*tion engineering assignments and later was Chief Engineer in _ which capacity he testified before the Appeals Board. In approximatezy 1962 when AGNEW was elected County Executive in Baltimore County, Md., which position 1s roughly equivalent to being a Mayor, WOLFF was working as Chief Engineer for Public WOPKS , Baltimore County, Approximately Six months after AGNEW went in office, WOLFF entered business as a Consulting Engineer, His friendshiv with AGNEW continued. He said that he knew he would get county engineering consulting jobs but furnished no Getails., He left his position with the county because of adverse publicity in the press indicating that while he held ' the county job, he was also doing consulting work for the State 90f Maryland. Up until March i, 1967, WOLFF continued to be self-employed as a consulting engineer, On March 1, 1967, at the behest of SPIRO T. AGNEW, he became Commissioner of the State Road Department for the State of Maryland. ‘WOLFF said that there had never been an extremely close personal relationship between he end AGNEW but they had been friends over the period of time described -above. He. volunteered that to date AGNEW had never asked him directly for any money. During the period that WOLFF was in private business himself, he gave payments of approximately five percent of the contracts Yor ‘which he was hired as a consultant and had “an awareness" that some of the kickbacks were going to AGNEW, In March 1967, while head of the State Road Depart ment in Maryland, which position he held until February of 1969, the following situation existed, Shortly after taking the position of State Road Commissioner, I.H, "BUD" HAMMERMAN, approached WOLFF and told him that an arrangement * was to be made involving him, WOLFF, to work out "patronage" with consultants that were doing pusiness with the State. HAMMERMAN said he, would