Editing The Wall Street Journal (section)

===1973: Spiro Agnew bribery===
On August 7, 1973, in an article by [[Jerry Landauer]], the ''Journal'' was the first publication to report that U.S. Vice President [[Spiro Agnew]] was under federal investigation on bribery, extortion, and tax fraud charges. Agnew released a statement confirming the investigation on the night before the ''Journal'' article was published.<ref>{{cite news|last=Apple|first=R.W. Jr.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/07/archives/a-gne-w-is-under-us-investigation-in-possible-criminal-violations.html|title=Agnew is under U.S. investigation in 'possible' criminal violations; innocent of wrongdoing, he says|work=The New York Times|date=August 7, 1973|access-date=September 6, 2024|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/12/archives/thunderbolt-from-the-early-days-now-agnew.html|title=Thunderbolt From the Early Days|work=The New York Times|date=August 12, 1973|access-date=September 6, 2024|url-access=limited}}</ref> After pleading no contest to one charge of income tax evasion, Agnew was sentenced to a $10,000 fine and three-year suspended jail sentence. On the same day of his sentencing, Agnew resigned as vice president on October 10, 1973.<ref>{{cite book|last=Greene|first=John Robert|chapter='I'll Continue to Speak Out': Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/atpresidentsside00walc/page/124/mode/2up?q=%22continue+to+speak+out%22|title=At the President's Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century|url=https://archive.org/details/atpresidentsside00walc|editor-last=Walch|editor-first=Timothy|pages=[https://archive.org/details/atpresidentsside00walc/page/130/mode/2up?q=131 131]-[https://archive.org/details/atpresidentsside00walc/page/132/mode/2up?q=132 132]|year=1997|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=0-8262-1133-X|via=Internet Archive|url-access=registration}}</ref>