RICHMOND, Va. -- An accountant retained by L. Douglas Wilder's U.S. National Slavery Museum said the museum's 2005 tax filing does not contain a $1.6 million discrepancy, according to Wilder's court response to one of the creditors in the museum's bankruptcy proceedings. The accountant, William Allan Jones, filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court copies of 22 canceled checks to architects and contractors to support his finding that all the funds were accounted for, contrary to a claim by the city of Fredericksburg. The city is owed more than $250,000 in back taxes for a museum that was never built.
He wrote that the addition of those "fixed assets" made toward the building's construction accounted for the discrepancy.
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