Biography
George Gordon Liddy, also known as G. Gordon Liddy, was a former FBI agent and White House operative convicted in Watergate and related political-espionage prosecutions. His documented sentence service began on January 30, 1973. President Carter commuted his twenty-year Watergate sentence to eight years on April 12, 1977, and a signed pardon-attorney memorandum records actual parole in September 1977. He died on March 30, 2021.
A February 22, 1977 Jack Anderson column reports a pending appeal for sentence commutation, including support from Yale law professor Dennis Curtis, and discusses Liddy's imprisonment at Danbury and a federal prison farm. The column's possible commutation and future parole eligibility were proposals or forecasts at publication, not completed release; his independently documented later commutation and September 1977 parole remain the actual events. Source: https://archive.newportbeachlibrary.org/NBPL/0/edoc/1233760/1977-02-22%20-%20Orange%20Coast%20Pilot.pdf#page=6
George Gordon Liddy, also known as G. Gordon Liddy, was a former FBI agent and White House operative convicted in Watergate and related political-espionage prosecutions. His documented sentence service began on January 30, 1973. President Carter commuted his twenty-year Watergate sentence to eight years on April 12, 1977, and a signed pardon-attorney memorandum records actual parole in September 1977. He died on March 30, 2021.
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The presidential order explicitly identifies Allenwood Federal Prison Camp as his place of confinement in April 1977. Its proposed July 1977 parole eligibility and 1980 mandatory-release dates were forecasts. The later signed Acting Pardon Attorney statement records the completed September 1977 parole; only that actual month is used. No June 17, 1972 arrest is borrowed from the five burglars apprehended at the Watergate, and the related 1974 convictions are not treated as separate physical prison admissions. The portrait is the FBI’s individually identified archival photograph, National Archives Identifier 518189.
