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How is THIS Dyson's fault...

The Dyson campaign used two issues against him, McKay said — the failed state deal to sell 836 acres off Indian Bridge Road to Willard Hackerman, a Baltimore philanthropist and developer, and a counterfeiting charge against his son, which was eventually shelved.


The secret arrangement between the Ehrlich administration to sell Hackerman the land in St. Mary’s for the same price the state paid for it was called off after the terms of the deal became public. Hackerman offered to donate some of the property as a site for schools. He would have received millions of dollars in tax breaks while building some homes overlooking St. Mary’s Lake.


‘‘Even today people see my son as guilty of some illegal action,” he said of the counterfeiting charge. ‘‘He didn’t get off because he was my son, he got off because he wasn’t guilty.”