1. Egil Krogh was a Senior Fellow on Ethics and Leadership at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Counselor to the Director at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership.
11 Facts About Egil Krogh
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Egil Krogh's mother was a homemaker while his father was an executive with the Marshall Field's chain of department stores.
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Egil Krogh graduated with the highest honors from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois in 1961.
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Egil Krogh was employed by Hullin, Ehrlichman, Roberts, and Hodge, the Seattle law firm of family friend John Ehrlichman, and joined Ehrlichman in the counsel's office of Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.
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Egil Krogh joined the Nixon White House as an advisor on the District of Columbia and later served as liaison to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
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On November 30,1973, Egil Krogh pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiring to violate Fielding's civil rights and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
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Egil Krogh was sentenced to six years in prison, though he served only four-and-a-half months.
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Egil Krogh was disbarred by the Washington State Supreme Court in 1975.
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Egil Krogh wrote a book about these events: The Day Elvis Met Nixon.
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Egil Krogh was a frequent lecturer on the topic of legal ethics, having visited many schools, bar associations and other gatherings of lawyers and judges.
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Egil Krogh died from heart failure in Washington, DC, on January 18,2020, at age 80.