Before inheriting his family’s fortune, Scaife attended Yale University, but was expelled in his freshmen year when he rolled a beer keg down a flight of stairs and broke a classmate’s legs, according to a 1999 Washington Post article.
—CNN, in what is perhaps not the way you’d want your obituary notice to end, even if you weren’t conservative think tank money source billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
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Scaife was also a nominee to Pensito Review’s GOP Adulterers Hall of Fame. He bankrolled the “Arkansas Project” that dug up dirt on the Clintons in the early 1990s, while he himself indulged in extramarital activities.