Steve Kangas Incident
On 8. February 1999 former military intelligence specialist turned progressive writer Steve Kangas committed suicide less than 60 feet from Scaife's office door inside the One Oxford Center, Pittsburgh. He had been an outspoken critic of Scaife and believed that Scaife-funded initiatives posed a danger to the nation. Scaife hired Rex Armistead and a reporter from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to investigate whether or not Kangas had been out to kill Scaife. Conspiracy theories concerning the death of Kangas continued to flourish in the period afterwards, with some commentators noting the irony when compared with Scaife's own material support of conspiracy theories regarding the suicide of Vince Foster.
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