Donald Henry Segretti (born September 17, 1941, in San Marino, California) is an attorney best known for working as a political operative with then-U.S.
President Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President during the early 1970s.
Segretti served four and a half months in prison after investigations related to the Watergate scandal revealed his leading role in extensive political sabotage efforts ("ratfucking") against the Democrats.He holds a B.S.
in finance from the University of Southern California (1963) and a J.D.
from UC Berkeley School of Law (1966).
While at USC he was initiated into Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and became associated with Dwight L.
Chapin, Tim Elbourne, Ron Ziegler, Herbert Porter, and Gordon C.
Strachan, all of whom joined the "Trojans for Representative Government" group.