WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Thursday using an expansive racketeering law — originally crafted to prosecute organized crime — to put a landlord accused of providing unsuitable living conditions to his renters out of business. Speaking at a press conference, Schwalb announced his office was using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, to dismantle the real estate operation of Ali “Sam” Razjooyan, his brother Eimon “

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