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ee mene er | -33- , ~ “At first Matz and Childs personally generated the necessary cash to make these payments. As the size of the various cash payments they were making increased, however, they found it necessary to employ other methods by which i to generaté these cash funds in their company. These methods violated the : Internal Revenue Code and were designed to obscure the purpose for which the ' “cash was used. < . During the first year or two of the Agnew administration in Baltimore County, the company's county work increased. Matz, however, was not satisfied because he believed that his company was, entitled to an even larger~share of the county" s work due to his reliability in making payments. He told the close associate that he was dissatisfied, and the close associate arranged a meeting with Mr. Agnew. The three men met at Mr. Agnew's house. At this meeting, Matz complained that his company had not received enough county work. Both Mr. Agnew and the close associate promised that they would help the company to receive more county work, and in particular, Mr. Agnew told him that he would speak on Matz's behalf to the appointed county officials who were nominally responsible for the selection of engineers for county consulting contracts. In the 1966 gubernatorial cempaign, Matz and Childs made campaign contributions to Mr. Agnew, in part because they believed that Mr. Agnew would * make an excellent Governor. They ‘also, however, had another substantial reason for supporting Mr. Agnew. Under Governor Tawes's administration, their company had not received any substantial amount of work from the Maryland State Roads Commission. They realized that their inability to secure any substantial amount of State work was the result of the fact that they were not among the small group of engineering firms that were closely associated with the Tawes administra tion and that had received nost of the State work awarded by that administration. Both men were therefore excited about Mr. Agnew's candidacy because they believed that if he were to be elected Governor, their company could begin to receive substantial amounts of work from the State Roads Commission by continuing to make payments to Mr. Agnew through his agents.