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handle the situation himself because it was "delicate", and they could not afford to have anyone else involved, WOLFF knew there was an extremely close relationship between AGNEW _ and HAMMERMAN., The result was that consulting firms that were to be under contract for consulting projects for the . .,etate would kick back five percent of their fee, HAMMERMAN — would make the collection, one-third of the amount collected ‘ would go to WOLFF, one-third to HAMMERMAN and one-third to AGNEW, However, this was in a very Snort period changed so that AGNEW was to get 50 percent and 25 percent was to go to HAMMERMAN and 25 percent to WOLFF, There were eight to 10 > engineering firms contributing or kicking back in this manner, WOLFF figured that he personally received in kickbacks, approximately $35,000 to $0,000 and said that AGNEW should have gotten about $75,000 during the period, He said when he left the office of State Road Commissioner that this type of be situation stopped. He said LESTER MATZ and [| who 7c are known to him, are people that he knew that were paying ® kickbacks directly to AGNEW and knew this because HAMMERMAN told him.so, WOLFF said that the reason consulting firms were set up to kick back in the above-described manner was because they did not have to submit a bid, WOLFF advised that he had been the Staff Science Advisor on the Staff of Vice President AGNEW from Pebruary 1969 until May of 1970, when he left and returned to again enter in private business. He said that he is currently the president of Greiner Environmental Systems, Inc., Consulting Engineers, One Village Square, Baltimore, Md, 21210, phone 301-323-8100, On 8/11/73, WOLFF was afforded polygraph examination which was directed towards ascertaining if he had furnished ~~ any false information in regards to alleged corruption and kickbacks, to date, This was the direction of the inquiry as requested by the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, The relevant questions and their answers in the Serles were as follows: . , ; 1 bd