full of crash bribes while serving as vice president. the way federal prosecutors responded to that evidence when it came to the vice president in 1972 and 1973 is that they prepared a 40-count indictment against vice president agnew and let them know they had done that, they prepare that indo i want. agnew and his lawyers argued publicly that he couldn t be indicted while in office but nevertheless, they then entered into secret negotiations with the justice department that a agnew would agree to leave office in exchange for pleading to one of the counts they were preparing to charge him with. and because prosecutors in 1973 did not throw the book at agnew and end upbringing the 40-count felony indictment against him and because they let him resign instead of facing that indictment so he only had to