Mardian Robert

American attorney and government appointee, an assistant attorney general under John Mitchell in the Nixon administration. Mardian passed the bar in 1949 and went into private practice for 20 years until he passed the Washington DC bar. From 1969 he held appointed posts at the cabinet level until he returned to private practice in 1972. At the Senate Investigating Committee, he testified on 19 July 1973 that he was not involved in Watergate. He was nonetheless indicted on 1 March 1974 and went to trial from 1 October to 17 December 1974. On 1 January 1975, Mardian was convicted of Watergate crimes with his license suspended, and he was sentenced on 21 February 1971. His conviction was overturned on 12 October 1976 and Mardian was reinstated by the California bar in November. Totally cleared of wiretapping charges, he was reinstated to the Supreme Court Bar on 28 February 1977. He married on 14 April 1946, and had three sons. Mardian died of complications from lung cancer on 17 July 2006 at age 82 at his vacation home in San Clemente, California. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less