Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure

2014-07-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and aluminum fortune who became the most important financial architect of the modern conservative movement, died on July 4, 2014, one day after his 82nd birthday, after a battle with cancer. Scaife’s death marked the end of a …

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Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure

1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon banking and aluminum fortune, purchased the Tribune-Review newspaper in Greensburg, Pennsylvania for approximately $5 million in 1970, marking his entry into media ownership as part of a broader strategy to build conservative infrastructure across multiple …

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