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Matz then called Governor Agnew's office and set up an appointment with the Governor. The meeting occurred in mid-July, 1968. 1 Matz met with the Governor alone in his office and handed him a manila envelope that contained $20,000 in cash. Matz expressed his appreciation -for the substantial state contracts that his company had received and told the Governor that the envelope contained the money that his “company "owed" in connection with these contracts. The meeting was a very short one and very little else was said, . “ —.. aan To the best of Matz’s present recollection, he made no ' further payments for state work to Mr. Agnew while he was Governor of Maryland. During the 1968 national campaign, however, Matz's firm contributed to Mr. Agnew's campaign. He also acted as a fund raiser for Mr. Agnew in 1968. Matz also recalls that at some point in 1967, Governor Agnew called him and asked him to contribute $5,000 to Nelson Rockefeller's campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination, a campaign which Mr. Agnew was then publically supporting. Matz asked if he wanted cash or a check, and Mr. Agnew asked for a check which Matz subsequently sent to him, When Rockefeller later’_ withdrew, Mr. Agnew returned the money to Matz with a letter. A couple of months after Mr. Agnew had assumed the office of Vice President, Matz decided that it was time for his company to make another payment in connection with contracts that had been awarded by the State of Maryland under the Agnew administration. He was willing _to make this payment, even though Mr. Agnew no longer controlled the contracts awarded by the Maryland State Roads Commission, because he wanted to maintain his reputation as a man who would meet his obligations in order to influence Vice President Agnew to assist him in securing federal engineering contracts for his company.