Word: mellone
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Other critics raise questions about whether Lott massaged the numbers. One arcane quarrel: for statistical purposes, Lott dropped from his study sample any counties that had no reported murders or assaults for a given year. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took Lott's figures and analyzed crime rates only in counties with populations above 100,000. Using this yardstick, right-to-carry laws reduced aggravated assaults 67% in Maine--but increased murders 105% in West Virginia. Still other critics note that in concealed-carry states, only about 2% of people have even bothered to get a permit, and they tend...
...most outlying ripples. (He first got noticed in 1996 after he took a deposition from John Huang, the fund raiser embroiled in the Clinton money scandals.) Over the past year, his reach has grown considerably, in part because Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from Richard Mellon Scaife's Carthage Foundation (see chart). Scaife is the Clinton-hounding Pittsburgh billionaire who subsidizes Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., the school where Starr planned to assume two deanships until complaints concerning a potential conflict of interest caused him to change his mind. Scaife also made close to $1 million in payments...
Still, the recent mergers of Citicorp with Travelers, NationsBank with BankAmerica, and Bank One with First Chicago show that the push for bigness remains intense. Just about everyone expects a handful of not-quite-ready-for-prime-time banks--Mellon Bank, Wells Fargo, Norwest, Fleet Financial and others--to be bought or to find partners themselves. Meanwhile, those same banks, and many middle-size ones too, sport prices inflated by speculation. Their high stock prices give them currency to shop for smaller prey of their own. Fertile deal territory, for sure...
...Starr got caught in an untenable position," says Shannon. "Starr's deanship is funded by Richard Mellon Scaife. If David Hale, Starr's key Whitewater witness, is also helped financially by Scaife, both Hale and Starr have a credibility problem...
...Hale's credibility is under attack once again. Tipped off by reports in the online magazine Salon and elsewhere, FBI officials have been interviewing an Arkansas woman who says that after Hale became a Whitewater witness, he began receiving cash payments from men who were connected with Richard Mellon Scaife, the rabidly anti-Clinton billionaire, and with the American Spectator, the gleefully anti-Clinton magazine that Scaife has supported. Last week Attorney General Janet Reno said the charges about payments to Hale "must be pursued...