Raymond Liddy, a former deputy attorney general and a son of central Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, has been disbarred nearly four years after his conviction in San Diego for possessing child pornography, the State Bar of California announced Monday.
Liddy, a resident of Coronado, was convicted following a bench trial by U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo, who said there was no evidence that he actively sought out the material, but he received and saved the images sent to him. He was sentenced in 2020 to five years of probation.
Liddy was found to be in possession of sexually explicit images depicting prepubescent girls that were found on a seized external hard drive and thumb drives, according to court documents.
The investigation into Liddy began in January 2017, based on tips sent from an internet service provider to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The activity was eventually tracked to Liddy's home, where he was arrested in July 2017.
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Liddy is a retired Marine whose prosecutorial career largely dealt with civil cases regarding fraud.
His disbarment was effective Sunday, according to a statement form the State Bar of California.
Liddy's father, a lawyer and FBI agent, was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and other charges in the Watergate scandal.
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The elder Liddy -- the chief operative in President Richard Nixon's White House "plumbers" unit that organized and directed the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in 1972 -- served more than four years in federal prison for those crimes, which also included refusing to testify to the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal.
