Who’s funding the Schiavo legal team
Bill Berkowitz, at Media Transparency, follows the old rules, and finds out who’s funding the Schiavo legal team. A group called the Philanthropy Roundtable
a collection of foundations that have funded conservative causes ranging from abolition of Social Security to anti-tax crusades and United Nations conspiracy theories. The Roundtable members’ founders include scions of America’s wealthiest families, including Richard Mellon Scaife (heir to the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune), Harry Bradley (electronics), Joseph Coors (beer), and the Smith Richardson family (pharmaceutical products).