A member of the House of Representatives is facing eviction for chronic nonpayment of rent on his Washington, DC penthouse.
Independent journalist Roger Sollenberger detailed the eviction effort against Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), whose landlord filed eviction papers in court stating the two-term congressman has not paid $85,000 in rent since March. The landlord added Mills has been late in his rent payment 18 times, resulting in more than $850 in late fees.
Mills reached out to Sollenberger to claim he has not paid his rent since March on $20,000 per month penthouse because of a broken link on his online payment platform.
“I know facts are unusual and unfamiliar thing for you, but here’s just the past two months where you can see I’m repeatedly asking for payment links, and again, as I tried with management today, it failed to process,” Mills stated in an X posting, sharing a screen shot of an error code 108 message to back his claim. “Facts are a finicky thing but wouldn’t expect you to be anything but a biased hack!”
Mills’ “biased hack” remark is a reference to Sollenberger’s previous affiliation with the left-leaning media outlets The Daily Beast and Salon. For his part, Sollenberger also claimed that Mills “had multiple defaults on an SBA loan and also failed to pay his property taxes that year on the house he put up as collateral for the loan,” adding that the congressman “refused to answer any of my questions about his business and personal financial disclosure.”
