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Anthony Ulasewicz

American investigator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ4773626
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Anthony Ulasewicz (December 14, 1918 in New York, United States – December 17, 1997 in Glens Falls, New York) was a figure in the Watergate scandal, delivering hundreds of thousands of dollars in "hush money" to Watergate defendants G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt. He also investigated the lives of notable Democrats like Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He was of Polish descent.

He is buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-12-14. For this dossier, Anthony, Ulasewicz and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Anthony Ulasewicz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.