According to a lawsuit filed by the National Museum of Americans in Wartime, the Cecil and Irene Hylton Foundation has reneged on a pledged donation of 67 acres in Prince William County, Virginia, that was to be the home site for the long-proposed museum project honoring U.S. veterans.
Museum attorneys also claim the foundation used the pledge to gain otherwise unavailable upzoning for 11 Hylton family parcels in nearby Dale City that vastly increased the value of Hylton family properties in the county.
“The Foundation made an unconditional pledge, a contract, to support the relocation of an existing Prince William County museum. The Foundation was compensated handsomely by the County for that unconditional pledge. They have broken trust with the museum, the County, and, worst of all, with America’s veterans and their families,” Sheppard Mullin attorney Benjamin Chew said to the nonprofit organization…