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. " ‘companies. John C. Childs is his principal business associate in these -repeated efforts to do so. ~30- III. © The Relationship Between Mr. Agnew and Lester Matz Lester Matz has been an engineer in Maryland for approximately q 24 years. He is the President of Matz, Childs and Associates, Inc., and Matz, Childs and Associates of Rockville, Inc., two Maryland engineering two companies. Matz has tendered his complete cooperation to the Govern- ment in this investigation. The Government has‘not ‘entered into any agreement with him as to what consideration, if any, he may expect in return ~ for his cooperation, other than the dssurance that his own truthful disclosures to the Government will not be used against him in any criminal prosecution. At the Government's request, Matz has executed a sworn written statement that recounts his relationship with Mr. Agnew. His testimony, the corroborative testimony of Childs: and other witnesses, and various corrobor- ative documents, would prove the following: Between 1956 and 1963, Matz and Childs supplied various engi- neering services to private developers, principally ‘in the metropolitan Balttmore area. Although they wanted to do as much public work as possible for the Baltimore County Government, they found it extremely difficult to receive any substantial amount of county work, They observed that a rela- tively small number of engineering companies received most of the substantial county engineering work during these years, and that most, if not all, of these companies were closely associated with County Administration or public officials. They simply could not break into this group, despite their They, therefore, welcomed Mr. Agnew's candidacy for Baltimore County Executive in 1962 because they believed that his election would present their company with an opportunity to be one of the few engineering companies that, they believed, would.inevitably form around his administra- tion and receive most of the substantial county engineering work. Matz had known Mr. Agnew casually for possibly two years, and during the 1962 can- paign, he and Childs made a $500 cash contribution directly to Mr. Agnew.