Billionaire's kids claim family trust fund was cleaned out to keep right wing newspaper in operation

[JPZenger]

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2014/11/09/Scaife-children-seek-details-on-trust-drained-to-support-Tribune-Review/stories/201411090179

The continuing saga of the late billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife's disappearing fortune. According to the article, he didn't mention his two kids in his will. The family trust fund that Scaife inherited was reportedly cleaned out over a number of years to keep his right wing newspaper in operation. His kids thought they were supposed to inherit the remaining funds.

Scaife was mainly famous for funding the attacks on Pres. Clinton in the 1990s and for funding many right wing organizations.

[glowing]

1. Boot staps and all that.. I'm not feeling too bad, they are in a position to know the top

of the top and probably educated to the hilt...

[yeoman6987]

2. Buffet kids at least know they aren't getting anything

Lol. The kids THOUGHT they were getting the rest of the money. Lol. Assume and all. No guarantees in life.

[CanonRay]

3. Ain't that a damn shame

[KansDem]

4. Too bad. I understand WalMart is hiring

Work hard and you'll succeed!

[Turbineguy]

5. It must be depressing to find out

that your inheritance was spent on damaging the world.

[marble falls]

6. It is crushing to learn that one in not a billionaire but is merely a multi-millionaire. So .....

I've been told.

I know: Lets take up a collection.

[roguevalley]

7. finally, justice

[jmowreader]

8. Whether they're worth two cents or $2 billion, they've got a point

If it turns out Richard Mellon Scaife funded his attempt to destroy the country by robbing his children, as it appears he did, they deserve to be made whole out of the Dick's personal estate.

[blue neen]

9. Exactly.

Quite interesting, isn't it?

[jmowreader]

10. Yeah, I never really got the "it's okay to screw them, they have money" thing

It's not okay to screw people out of money. Ever. No matter how much they have. We'd be aghast, and rightly so, if he was screwing his employees or the taxpayers...but let him fuck over his own kids? "Well, they must have deserved it, they were rich." In some ways that's worse than screwing his employees - his employees always have the option of quitting and going to work for another company. His adult children can't go to the rich guy across town and ask to be adopted.