Reclusive Saratoga billionaire Timothy Mellon, identified by The New York Times as the anonymous donor of $130 million to the government for military salaries amid the federal shutdown, describes himself in a memoir as a former liberal who escaped Connecticut’s “rat race” in 2005 for the “greener pastures” of picturesque, tax-friendly Wyoming.

“Life in Connecticut did not seem satisfactory: too many New Yorkers were moving in, true friends were difficult to make, traffic was becoming alarmingly dangerous, state taxes were always on the increase … life in general was becoming more tense and unpleasant,” writes Mellon in his self-published autobiography “PANAM.Captain."

He’s the 83-year-old grandson of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon and an heir to the Mellon bankin

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