By Antonio Olivo Antonio Olivo Reporter covering government, politics and demographics in Northern Virginia Email Bio Follow May 14 at 8:49 PM A Fairfax County supervisor who is running for board chair hired a lawyer to investigate suggestions that his family acquired its five-bedroom home through a quid pro quo arrangement with two local developers.
But he called the memo’s suggestions that the price was a discount related to his support for the 2016 rezoning of a portion of the nearby Kingstowne Towne Center “borderline libelous.” Sale records show that McKay and his wife, Crystal, bought the home for $850,000 in 2017, slightly more than its assessed value.
The fourth Democrat seeking the nomination, developer Tim Chapman, declined to say whether he commissioned the research. The memo notes that Warren Halle, chief executive of the Halle company, has been a major contributor to McKay. Businesses affiliated with Halle have donated a total of $50,000 to McKay’s bid for chairman, public records show.
If McKay had a business relationship with Halle during the time the rezoning was being considered, under state law, he would have had to disclose it as a conflict of interest. Former Fairfax supervisor John F. “Jack” Herrity was convicted of a misdemeanor in 1986 for failing to disclose a relationship with a builder.
“This witch hunt should be rejected,” Hanes wrote in a May 9 report sent to McKay and the rest of the board.
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