We the gubmit. We here to hep you.
You know, the truly troubling thing about this item is that there is nothing unusual about it. The DC Government doesn't know what day of the week it is, and, what's more, it doesn't care.
I'd estimate that the collective IQ of the District Government is probably around that of a tuna salad sandwich. But then, that might be giving tuna salad a really bad name.
Back to court!
How else is DC going to build that new baseball stadium if they can't extort every nickel and dime from the poor saps doing business there that they possibly can?
It appears, however, that she settled with D.C. last week and got $180,000 for their failure to tell her that it was on the demolition list when she purchased it.
I am surprised that the demolition lien wasn't addressed in last week's settlement one way or the other.
Which is pretty much the way they've treated US for, oh.... about 100 years now.
Even if she pays, she gets a clean lot w/utilities free and clear where a condemned building once stood. There is probably more to this story than is being reported here.
PBS had a show on last night re: the Nuremberg Trials... after kristallnacht the nazis charged the jews the amount of money that was destroyed in their own stores