A D.C. judge ordered a landlord to pay almost $7 million in fines and rent refunds after the D.C. attorney general sued for violating housing codes.
Residents spent years living with issues like mold, rats, sewage leaks, crumbling walls and ceilings, and toxic lead contamination.
Landlord Adolphe Edwards owned nine apartment buildings in the District that had deplorable conditions, according to the lawsuit by the attorney general’s office…