DC sues landlords with law used in organized crime to stop mistreatment of low

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has filed a lawsuit using a law originally crafted to prosecute organized crime to push a landlord accused of providing unsuitable living conditions to his renters out of business


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