MAGA Congressman Faces Eviction Over $85,000 in Unpaid Rent

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A Washington, D.C. landlord has filed eviction papers against Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) as the lawmaker reportedly owes $85,000 in unpaid rent.

Independent journalist Roger Sollengberger first disclosed the Republican’s financial woes on Monday.

“Rep. Cory Mills is being evicted for failure to pay months of rent at his D.C. penthouse,” he reported on X. “Owner claims Mills owes $85,000. He was served with notice for failure to pay in January. Ledger shows he paid late nearly every month since moving in, missing several months entirely.”

The monthly rent for Mills’ apartment was reportedly more than $20,000.

Sollenberger’s post included screenshots of a ledger kept by Bozzuto Management Company, which owns the apartment in question on Maryland Avenue in the nation’s capital.

As Florida Politics noted, the address on the ledger is the same location where Sarah Raviani alleged that Mills assaulted her in February. D.C. police issued a warrant for Mills’ arrest, but Raviani later said the incident was the result of a misunderstanding.

Florida Politics also reported:

Records show the landlord served past due notices to Mills. The legal file contains some communications that predate the period of March to July for which rent remains due.

In January, the landlord sent a letter demanding Mills pay more than $18,000 that he owed or the landlord would sue. Property manager Katherine Mercuri-Sojka wrote then that Mills could remain in the apartment if he paid the amount in full.

Records show Mills first filed an application to live in the apartment in June 2023, months after he was elected to Congress to represent Florida’s 7th Congressional District. In August that year, he was issued a late fee, though that was waived.

But he has been charged late fees of more than $850 since then, on 17 other occasions in total, according to records showing payment histories through January.

His rent at some point jumped from greater than $17,000 per month to more than $20,000 per month.

In Congress, Mills has cultivated a reputation as something of a fiscal hawk. Last year, he explained that he opposed a short-term funding resolution because “the total gross national debt has surged by $2.45 trillion in just the past year.”