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Title: Karma, baby! Scaife fears open documents in divorce proceedings
Source:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
URL Source: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/ ... uments-in-divorce-proceedings/
Published: Sep 23, 2007
Author: various, posted by Nicole Belle
Post Date: 2007-09-23 15:09:27 by robin
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Views: 190
Comments: 4
Among the right-wing organizations substantially funded by Mr. Scaife are the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, Judicial Watch, Cato Institute and a working group within his American Spectator publication called the “Arkansas Project,” whose specific aim was to locate and create dirt on the Clintons in order to smear them, in hopes of removing Clinton from office. Those rumors around Vince Foster’s suicide lay squarely on Scaife’s lap. During the 2004 election cycle, Scaife had his targets set directly on the Kerrys (and specifically Teresa Heinz Kerry), devoting a considerable sum to breaking open records to find dirt to smear the Democratic candidate through his wife. Which makes this news story all that much more schadenfreude-licious. Scaife is going through divorce proceedings from his wife, one that has provided lots of fodder for the gossip pages with arrests for trespassing, accusations of abuse and dognapping, of all things. At issue now is how much of Scaife’s fortune is owed to his wife, and guess what? What’s good for the right wingnut gander is apparently not good for the rest of geese. Scaife wants his records sealed and rival paper Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to return documents. Mr. Scaife’s attempt to make court documents inaccessible is unusual for the head of a news organization. Historically, newspapers and television stations have fought for greater rather than more restricted access. In fact, Mr. Scaife’s Tribune-Review joined other organizations in seeking to unseal the estate records of the late Sen. John Heinz during the presidential campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry, who is married to Sen. Heinz’s widow, Teresa.[..] Mr. Scaife’s attorneys say the Post-Gazette article describes “at length various highly confidential and personal matters contained in the record, none of which have any news value nor are legitimate subjects of public scrutiny.” Karma, baby…
Anyone who has dipped a toe in the wild and woolly currents of politics in the last thirty years should be familiar with the name of Richard Mellon Scaife. As partisans go, there isn’t anyone else willing to put so much of their money where their ideologies drive them, $340 million by some estimates.
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#1. To: robin (#0)
One of the funniest things I ever heard was G. Gordon Liddy on Al Franken's first day on the air at Air America. Franken was trying to talk Liddy into helping him break into Scaife's mansion so he could find all those Regnery books by Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly and so on that Scaife buys in bulk so they'll look like best sellers. Liddy, who is a pretty decent paleocon and who has an actual functioning sense of humor, was laughing like a loon. Scaife has a lot of skeletons in his closet and his ex-wife has named her price to keep her mouth shut: HALF. He wants to play hardball with her, started a smear job about her, and she responded with lots of embarrassing and possibly illegal stuff. This is going to be fun.
I think so too!
Some documents already on line, and make for amusing reading. He's lost at least $240 million on his so-called newspaper already, averaging $20 to $30 million a year. His ex is going to eat him alive in court. Here's one great and long document with a lot of financial detail. It took forever to load for me, so be forewarned. http://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/20070922scaife_AffidavitRegardingComplexSupport.pdf
It states they lived together for 10 years before marrying in 1991. She's claiming he had an adulterous affair (name redacted). The Tribune was losing $$ every year, yet he claims all kinds of nonsense why he kept it. Doesn't make business sense.
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#2. To: Mekons4 (#1)
This is going to be fun.
#3. To: robin (#2)
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