October 30, 2008
Va. Charity Ordered to Pay $6.5-Million in Damages
A Texas court has ordered the National Heritage Foundation, a Virginia charity, to pay millions of dollars in damages to two donors who claimed to have been misled by the organization.
The National Heritage Foundation, which was one of the leading promoters of a controversial giving technique that was effectively abolished by a 1999 law, must pay Juan J. and Silvia Mancillas, of Texas, and the couple's two sons, a total of $6.5-million.
The Mancillas, who had given nearly
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