Anthony Ulasewicz, who acknowledged that he delivered a quarter-million dollars in hush money to the Watergate burglars, has died. He was 79.
Ulasewicz died Wednesday at Glens Falls Hospital. The cause of death was not released.The retired New York City police detective admitted carrying money to the Watergate defendants, and investigating the social lives of prominent Democrats and the 1969 Chappaquiddick crash in which Sen. Edward Kennedy drove a car off a bridge and a female aide drowned.
Ulasewicz worked as a private investigator for the Nixon White House between 1969 and 1972. In his testimony at the Senate Watergate hearings, he acknowledged that he delivered $219,000 to G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt.