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BD-BaR Rev 11-11-75) (Suit Asks Return | OF $80,000 Bribes © To Agnew, Friends © t F f af (Mount Clipping in Space Below) By ROY GREGORY , Staff Reporter ANNAPOLIS — A taxpayers’ suit has been filed in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court here demanding that about $80,000 in bribes received by Spiro T. Agnew, Jerome B. Wolff and I.H. Hammerman II be returned to the state of Maryland. Three Marylanders, John A. Me- Millen, of Chevy Chase; Reina Chas- sy, of Kensington, and Suzanne Saul, of Chevy Chase, initiated the suit. They are being represented by attor- ney William A. Dobrovir, of Washing- , ton, _ : In the allegations filed in the suit, it was charged that “the defendants are under an equitable duty to ac. count for and make restitution to the people of the state of Maryland for all such money received.” It was also alleged that “the attor- ney general of the state of Maryland, . the state’s chief law enforcement offi- cer, has declined to proceed against the defendants for imposition of a con- Structive trust, for an accounting and - dforsestitution or for any other reHef—ryeceiving of the contracts," COPY SENT TO BUREAU ON Plaines ors tetcat ten ented aie raat erst ote aoe me ted we oes N The court papers stated that the defendants were bringing the action “as taxpayers themselves and, as a class action, on behalf of all other Maryland taxpayers.” The plaintiffs said in their suit that the defendants’ influence in the award of certain state engineering contracts increased the costs of said contracts to the state and directly and specially imposed pecuniary loss on the plain- tiffs and all other taxpapers. The court papers state that Agnew was governor of Maryland from Jan. 25, 1967 until Jan. 7, 1969, at a salary of $25,000 per year. The court papers stipulated that in _ the spring of 1967, Agnew, Wolff and - Hammerman “entered into an agree- ment whereby Wolff would inform Hammerman as to which engineering firms were to receive non-competitive contracts with the state, “Hammerman would contact these engineering firms to solicit payments from them in consideration for their OCT 12 1976 z a <r (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) —— NEWS AMERICAN —— PAGE A=3 —— BALTIMORE, MD. Edition: 8 STAR Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification JEL Submitting Office: BA (_] Being Investigated