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Broken contracts, hostile workplace, closed-door threats: Allegations against James Madison’s foundation

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Broken contracts, hostile workplace, closed-door threats: Allegations against James Madison’s foundation
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Broken contracts, hostile workplace, closed-door threats: Allegations against James Madison’s foundation
JAMES MADISON

Considerable uproar continues in the aftermath of last year’s “woke” takeover of Montpelier, the
museum
estate of American founder
James Madison
.

One year ago today, George Urban signed a contract to be the chief financial officer of Montpelier, a job that, in effect, he had already been doing without the formal title. On March 31, Urban filed a
lawsuit
claiming Montpelier had breached his contract by dismissing him without the severance pay guaranteed therein. Urban’s suit also suggests his dismissal stemmed at least in part from a claim he and three others filed on the same day he signed the contract, May 16, 2022, alleging that the four had been subjected to a hostile work environment by staffers supporting what amounted to a board coup in which the left-wing forces took control of the foundation.

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