who was convicted due to watergate
Mr. Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjury in the Watergate cover-up and conspiracy in the 1971 raid on the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Mr. Ellsberg, a Pentagon researcher, has said he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press.
Watergate break-in to head up the president's re-election campaign in '72. In 1974. Mitchell was convicted on charges related to the Watergate break-in and subsequent. cover-up. Testimony showed that Mitchell approved of both the break-in and the hush money for the. defendants. He served 19 months in prison.