Scaife, owner of right-leaning newspaper the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, has a history of bankrolling conservative causes.
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Scaife also denies ever meeting Starr, or exerting any influence over Pepperdine's dean selection.
The money allegedly funneled to Hale came from The American Spectator magazine, which receives financial support from Scaife.
"This certainly did not go through, sort of, formal medical channels, " Scaife said.
Scaife, along with a radiologist who was helping him, could see the blockage.
Scaife is also connected to allegations that Hale received money from conservative groups while cooperating as a witness for Starr.
Talk about strange bedfellows--Ruddy, Scaife and Clinton have become occasional lunch chums.
They were still connected a week later when Scaife took them out.
"It worked out well -- really well -- for him, " Scaife said.
In a letter to Reno responding to Holder, Starr says any contact between Hale and an associate of Scaife occurred before Starr became independent counsel.
The magnets they wanted to place inside Patrick weren't approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a medical device, and Scaife knew of no one who had performed the procedure.
Scaife and the radiologist maneuvered the magnets into position.
In an interview at the office of her attorney David Matthews, Mann repeated her contention that money from Richard Mellon Scaife had been funneled to Hale for inside information on Starr's probe.
Scaife had consulted his colleagues and determined that if the magnets slipped and somehow created a hole in Patrick's intestines, he would be forced to do the operation he was trying to avoid.
In a March 2, 1997 article in the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Scaife is quoted saying he didn't even know in advance that Starr had been designated as dean of the School of Public Policy.
Scaife, publisher of thePittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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Raised in suburban Long Island, Ruddy earned a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, signed on as a journalist first at the New York Post, then as a national correspondent for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
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