It is all downhill from here. Were all going to be fine. President Richard Nixon had a personal attorney whose name was herbe herbercolmbach. Went to prison in the watergate scandal. 44 years ago week, s personal lawyer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but he only ended up doing about a third of that prison he only ended up having toerve about six months in prison because he plead guilty, and he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the watergate scandal as the president s personal lawyer. Colmbach showed no emotion. He said id like you to know how deeply embarrassed i am and how sorry i am to be here the judge announced the sentence. Not six months and not more than ths with a fine of 10,0 10,000. He left the court and went straight to a waiting car without comment. He is the 14th person to be sentenced for a crime related to watergate. A president richa nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach and his firm did a l runofthemill personal legal tasks for the president. They, for e
nixon administration changing its policy on milk prices. kalmbach then structured the illegal bribe, tha gantic wasn t just a $2 million bulk paymen when that started to become a scandal, herb kalmbach destroye nixon presidential campaign, which itself was against the law, even before we got all the post watergate campaign finance reforms. herbkalmbach was a very, very, very successful fundraiser in terms of the amount of money he raised for nixon, by hook or by crook. after the 68 presidential race when nixon won the presidency for the first time, the nixon campaign actually had money left over that year, more than a million and a half dollars of hat t raised for that campaign but they never g around to spending. and aer nixon got elected, nixon s personal lawyer, herb kalmbach essentially became custodian of that leftover campaign money. and that leftover campaign money basically became a slush fund