The Nation - News from Feb. 28, 1985
Most of the money for retired Gen. William C. Westmoreland’s libel suit against CBS came from Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the country’s richest men and a leading financier of New Right causes. Westmoreland’s chief defense lawyer, Dan M. Burt, said in an interview this week that Scaife, a great-grandson of the founder of the Mellon oil and banking empire, was the “real funder” of the Westmoreland case. Burt said Scaife put up more than $2 million of the approximately $3 million that it cost Burt’s Capital Legal Foundation to pursue the lawsuit.
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