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They were sons of Washington, D.C. privilege, young men whose fathers shaped the nation’s history for better and for worse.
The two men from San Diego each found their own success, in part through family connections — one repeatedly winning election to Congress, the other becoming a respected state prosecutor.
Then they each failed spectacularly and publicly.
Today, Duncan D. Hunter and Raymond Liddy are both convicted felons, and the former congressman is lobbying President Donald Trump to pardon Liddy, who is the son of a notorious Watergate figure and was convicted of possessing child pornography.
According to a federal disclosure filed late last year, Hunter is working to secure a pardon for the son of G. Gordon Liddy, who went to prison for overseeing the break-in of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and other crimes that drove Richard Nixon from the White House.
The lobbying report was submitted by Tommy Marquez, chief executive officer at Tommy Marquez Consulting, a government affairs firm based in Grapevine, Texas. Marquez listed Hunter as a consultant to his company.
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