The US Vice President who resigned
Included in our list of Top 8 Famous Tax Evasion Case is a former vice president of United States of America. Spiro T. Agnew, the 39th Vice President of the United States in the Republican administration of President Richard Nixon, was known as the only second vice president to resign in the office in 1973 after being charged with conspiracy, tax fraud, and bribery.
Baltimore: Spiro Agnew, flanked by Secret Service agents, leaves Federal Court 10/10 after pleading no contest to tax evasion charges and admitting in 1967 he did not pay taxes on taxable income. Agnew announced that he had resigned as vice president to spare the nation a long period of national uncertainty. 10/10/1973
Spiro Agnew was prosecuted by a prominent US attorney, George Beall when the latter opened an investigation in Baltimore City, which Agnew was rumored to be involved. Agnew was then charged with accepting bribes of more than $100,000. Initially, he refused to resign if indicted but later on agreed to resign. He then received three years’ probation and was fined $10,000 for his actions. After his tax scandal and bribery, he became a business consultant and a novel writer. He died of Leukemia on September 17, 1996.