City Council has introduced an ordinance that would direct nearly $6 million from City Hall’s delinquent tax sales fund to Marvin Grimm Jr. — a Richmond man who was wrongfully imprisoned on murder charges for 44 years.

City Council is on recess for the month of August but hastily convened a special meeting on Monday to add the ordinance to their agenda for upcoming meetings in September. That expedited timeline came on the heels of a letter, sent from Gov. Glenn Youngkin to Mayor Danny Avula, in which the governor threatened to withhold state funding if city officials did not meet their obligation to pay Grimm.

Under a new state law on wrongful incarceration that took effect in July, Grimm is owed $5.8 million from both the state and the city.

Responding to Youngkin, Avula said his admi

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