Spiro Agnew was forced to resign from his position as Vice President under President Nixon due to charges of tax evasion and bribery. He later pleaded no contest to the charges.
Spiro Agnew is the U.S. vice president who was impeached but did not resign. He served as vice president under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. Agnew resigned from office in 1973 due to charges of tax evasion and bribery.
The Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973 was Spiro Agnew. He served under President Richard Nixon during this period. Agnew resigned in October 1973 amid a scandal involving allegations of tax evasion and bribery.
Yes, Spiro Agnew, the former Vice President of the United States, was investigated for tax evasion during the early 1970s. The investigation revealed that he had accepted bribes while serving as Governor of Maryland and had failed to report income on his tax returns. Although he resigned from the vice presidency in 1973, he did not face criminal charges for tax evasion specifically, as he pleaded no contest to charges of bribery and tax evasion in a separate case.
Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States under Richard Nixon, resigned in 1973 due to a bribery scandal related to kickbacks he received from contractors during his time as Governor of Maryland.
President Gerald Ford became vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned when he was found guilty of tax evasion. Nixon then resigned after the Watergate scandal and Ford then became President.
Spiro Agnew was the vice president of the U. S. from January 20, 1969 to October 10,1973 under Richard Nixon. He resigned from office because he was charged with tax evasion to which he pleaded no contest.
Spiro T. Agnew pleaded guilty to tax evasion and resigned as vice-president in 1973.(Gerald Ford, who later became President when Nixon resigned, was appointed to take Agnew's place.)
Actually, Gerald Ford did not resign due to accepting money from Maryland state building contractors. He became Vice President after Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973 amid a separate scandal involving tax evasion and bribery. Ford himself later faced scrutiny for his decision to pardon Richard Nixon, but he did not resign from the vice presidency or the presidency for financial misconduct.
Raymond Burr
Although it was not an official firing, Spiro T. Agnew had to resign in 1973. He had plead no contest to charges of federal income tax evasion.
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."Article II section 4 US Constution.