https://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc/maddow-bag-man-podcast/episode-2-crawling-n925946
https://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc/maddow-bag-man-podcast/transcript-episode-3-hang-there-baby-n931581
https://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc/maddow-bag-man-podcast/transcript-episode-4-turn-it-n935286
https://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc/maddow-bag-man-podcast/transcript-episode-5-double-header-n938161
https://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc/maddow-bag-man-podcast/transcript-episode-6-disappearing-act-n940311
https://www.nbcnews.com/msnbc/maddow-bag-man-podcast/transcript-episode-7-you-can-t-fire-me-i-quit-n943241
This 40-page statement of evidence that was thrown together all night over-night, it was rushed to DC with a sirens wailing police escort like it was the holy grail.
For these prosecutors, it kind of was.
Spiro Agnew was about to walk into court and plead to a felony count of tax evasion, and these prosecutors wanted the American people to know that he had not-only been caught for tax evasion.
BAKER: We knew what it had to do. It had to bury him, so that the country could see this wasn't a “witch hunt”-- to use a current expression-- that there was a very substantial, solid case against him.
LIEBMAN: It was a big issue for all of us, all of us. Because what we certainly couldn't allow to happen would be for the Vice President to plead Nolo to a tax count and then to walk out and say, “This is nothing. This is some little mistake I made. This is absolutely, these guys are liars. I made a little mistake on my tax returns. I've made amends. I'm going to pay back the money that I should have paid and I'm going back to work.”