{"id":214624,"date":"2025-10-10T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214624\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:57:11","slug":"a-justice-department-investigation-found-evidence-spiro-agnew-had-accepted-bribes-throughout-his-political-career-even-as-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214624\/","title":{"rendered":"A Justice Department investigation found evidence Spiro Agnew had accepted bribes throughout his political career, even as vice president."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; On Oct. 10, 1973, the Vice President of the United States was under fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A Justice Department investigation found evidence Spiro Agnew had accepted bribes throughout his political career, even as vice president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He pled no contest to federal tax evasion in exchange for dropping those charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Agnew resigned later that same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was sentenced to a $10,000, three years probation and was disbarred in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KNOE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; On Oct. 10, 1973, the Vice President of the United States was under fire.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,121864,31887,121861,21,19,22,20,25,24,121863,31888,121862],"class_list":["post-214624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-spiro-agnew","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-this-day-in-history-knoe","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vice-president-spiro-agnew","tag-we-the-people","tag-we-the-people-knoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}