Bernie Raimo, a longtime counsel to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional staffer for decades before that, died Tuesday at age 79.
Raimo resided on Capitol Hill until his passing. His family said the cause of death was a stroke.
“For more than four decades — including fifteen years in my office – Bernie served the Congress and our Country with the utmost distinction,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement. “Whether defending our security and civil liberties on the House Intelligence Committee, upholding integrity in government on the Ethics Committee or sharing his vast institutional knowledge in my Speaker’s Office, his public service was marked by excellence, integrity and good humor.”
