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In reply to the discussion: Richard Scaife, Newspaper Billionaire and Andrew Mellon Heir, Has Untreatable Cancer [View all]UpInArms
(51,284 posts)48. What happened to Steve Kangas
Death sparks conspiracy theory
Sunday, March 14, 1999
A former Army intelligence officer shot himself to death last month in a restroom outside conservative philanthropist and publisher Richard Mellon Scaife's Downtown offices, and Scaife has assigned a private investigator to determine whether the incident was a bungled assassination attempt.
Steven R. Kangas died in the late hours of Monday, Feb. 8, on the 39th floor of One Oxford Centre.
The shooting of the 37-year-old Las Vegas man attracted little attention at the time, and Pittsburgh police and the Allegheny County coroner's office quickly ruled it a suicide.
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Kangas had recently sold his share of a gambling business in Las Vegas, and he ran the "Liberalism Resurgent" page on the World Wide Web. The page published extensive criticism of conservatives, and some of its writings asserted that Scaife was the financier of a right-wing conspiracy to topple President Clinton.
According to a city police report, One Oxford Centre building engineer Don Adams was making a routine check of electrical circuit breakers in the men's room down the hall from the Scaife foundation offices when he found Kangas lying face up, his head protruding from beneath a toilet stall.
<snip>
Scaife is one of three tenants on the 39th floor, a location he specifically requested when he moved his family foundations and personal offices there several years ago. Also on the floor are Staley Capital Advisers and the law offices of T.W. Henderson.
A former Army intelligence officer shot himself to death last month in a restroom outside conservative philanthropist and publisher Richard Mellon Scaife's Downtown offices, and Scaife has assigned a private investigator to determine whether the incident was a bungled assassination attempt.
Steven R. Kangas died in the late hours of Monday, Feb. 8, on the 39th floor of One Oxford Centre.
The shooting of the 37-year-old Las Vegas man attracted little attention at the time, and Pittsburgh police and the Allegheny County coroner's office quickly ruled it a suicide.
<snip>
Kangas had recently sold his share of a gambling business in Las Vegas, and he ran the "Liberalism Resurgent" page on the World Wide Web. The page published extensive criticism of conservatives, and some of its writings asserted that Scaife was the financier of a right-wing conspiracy to topple President Clinton.
According to a city police report, One Oxford Centre building engineer Don Adams was making a routine check of electrical circuit breakers in the men's room down the hall from the Scaife foundation offices when he found Kangas lying face up, his head protruding from beneath a toilet stall.
<snip>
Scaife is one of three tenants on the 39th floor, a location he specifically requested when he moved his family foundations and personal offices there several years ago. Also on the floor are Staley Capital Advisers and the law offices of T.W. Henderson.
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Richard Scaife, Newspaper Billionaire and Andrew Mellon Heir, Has Untreatable Cancer [View all]
MADem
May 2014
OP
Plus a million. But his millions couldn't save him. And his 'legacy' stole lives. n/t
freshwest
May 2014
#63
If I EVER post something on DU that gets universal accolades, I'll assume the world has ended
DFW
May 2014
#78
kangas was the best and one of the leaders of knowing what and who was dealing the cards
UpInArms
May 2014
#53
Too bad he didn't donate his hundreds of millions to help find a cure for cancer.
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2014
#15
we know the cure---stop industrial pollution, including our food supply and water
wordpix
May 2014
#82
Sad for him, but I'm not supporting any Tea Baggers in his honor and I still support Hillary.
McCamy Taylor
May 2014
#20
Too bad he didn't put all of that money he used to destroy good people into cancer research.
LeftofObama
May 2014
#21
He's no loss and won't be mourned, but I don't cheer his cancer or wish it on him.
Shrike47
May 2014
#31
Sorry folks but having lived thru this fuckers antics: Great News, not a second too soon... nt
winstars
May 2014
#34
Considering the damage done, no mention of his funding the big Arkansas Project, against Clintons,
Todays_Illusion
May 2014
#51
I've hated his politics ever since I first encountered them thirty years ago. But
struggle4progress
May 2014
#57
He bought up all those books of Coulter's to put her on the (faux) best seller lists. nt
MADem
May 2014
#60