In the 1960s and '70s, he donated to the campaigns of Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon (some of the money for which ended up in a Watergate slush fund) and helped co-found the Heritage Foundation.ĭuring the 1990s, he bankrolled a number of organizations and news outlets that attempted to dig up dirt on Clinton, including Accuracy in Media, American Spectator, Christopher Ruddy of Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (who ironically gave Clinton a positive review in a 2007 article ) and Judicial Watch, which filed a number of lawsuits against Clinton. A number of conspiracy theories surround Scaife, and he himself was given to whacked-out conspiracy theories. He was the chief financier behind the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" that spent most of the 1990s trying (and failing) to get Bill Clinton out of the White House. Mellon and billionaire heir to the Mellon family fortune made on oil, banking, and aluminum businesses. Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014) was a nephew of Andrew W.
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