the investigations funded by scaife money mostly concentrated on the whitewater investments, which extended to a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of vince foster, a clinton aide with connections to whitewater. christopher w. ruddy, a reporter for the scaife-owned "pittsburgh tribune-review", published a series of articles claiming clinton was behind foster's suicide. although clinton was never found to have broken the law by ken starr, ruddy published his book, "the strange death of vincent foster", regardless. his conspiracy theories about foster have since been dismissed even by some more outspoken conservatives like ann coulter. the "spectator" stopped receiving scaife funding when "it ran a scathing review of [the] book ..."