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Liddy was a member of the White House Plumbers, a group of operatives who were tasked with spying on and disrupting the activities of political opponents of Richard Nixon. The group was responsible for a number of illegal activities, including the break-in at the Watergate complex in 1972. Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and wiretapping in connection with the Watergate scandal and served 42 months in prison.