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Donald H. Segretti A former military prosecutor and civil lawyer, Segretti was an operative for the Committee for the Re-election of the President responsible for political sabotage of Democrats in 1971-72. In 1974, he pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal campaign literature, including a letter written on the stationery of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, denigrating blacks and accusing other presidential candidates of sexual misconduct. He served four months in prison. Segretti briefly threw his hat into the ring as a candidate for Superior Court judge in Orange County, Calif., in 1995 but withdrew after a week, saying the shadow of Watergate hung over the campaign. "It was supposed to be a low-key campaign and a non-partisan office," Segretti said. "But it wasn't treated that way" |
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