Charles Ruff, former Watergate Prosecutor, has died, aged 61.
Ruff is best known for the leading role he played in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999.
During Watergate, Ruff prosecuted some of Richard Nixon’s fundraisers over taking illegal contributions. He became the Watergate prosecutor in 1975.
Ruff also investigated Gerald Ford over illegal campaign contributions, but found no evidence against the former president.
Ruff was born on August 1, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. He contracted an unknown virus in Liberia shortly after completing law school which left him paralysed.
He became President Clinton’s chief legal adviser in 1997 at the height of the Whitewater investigations.
