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An Ohio landlord has agreed to pay $199,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging he sexually harassed female tenants for more than a decade, in many cases threatening to evict tenants who refused his advances, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. The Justice Department lawsuit alleged Joseph Pedaline and YLP LLC, which owned and managed residential rental properties in Youngstown, Ohio, violated the Fair Housing Act when Pedaline sexually harassed female tenants from at least 2009 to at least 2020. According to the lawsuit, Pedaline allegedly subjected multiple female tenants to unwelcome sex…

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