[8] A May 1971 New York Times article called him "a quiet Yale graduate with two college degrees who has applied computer techniques to city planning".

The "Pan Am Clipper Connection", operated by subsidiary Boston-Maine Airways, ceased operations in 2008 after the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) concluded that Boston-Maine's Air Carrier Certificate should be revoked on the basis of lack of financial fitness, poor management oversight, failure to follow federal laws and regulations, and filing false financial data with the department in its application for authority to fly large aircraft.

[12] GTI, renamed Pan Am Railways in 2006, was ultimately sold to the CSX Corporation; the sale closed in June 2022,[13] with the private owners paid $600 million;[14] Mellon owned the majority of the company[which?].

[1] In July 2024, The New York Times reported that Mellon was responsible for the 2012 removal and subsequent 2013 return of the Narragansett Runestone.

[14] In 2012, Mellon donated over $1 million to The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), a nonprofit organization, to assist its efforts to find Amelia Earhart's plane and remains.

[18] In 2014, U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl granted TIGHAR's motion for summary judgment after recognizing that even Mellon's own experts were unable to confirm his allegations about the 2010 photographs that he claimed showed the plane.

Skavdahl concluded: Defendants represented to Plaintiff they were planning another expedition in their continued quest to find the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's airplane.

[27] In August 2021, Mellon donated $53.1 million in stock to the state of Texas to pay for construction of walls along the US–Mexico border.

[14] Between April 2023 and March 2024, Mellon donated $15 million to MAGA Inc. (Make America Great Again), a Trump super PAC.

[30] On May 31, 2024, the day after Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, Mellon gave MAGA Inc. $50 million, one of the largest disclosed donations ever.

Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations. ...