‘Get a Job, You Black N—er!’: Virginia Landlord Who Threatened to Turn Black Tenant’s Children Into ‘Potting Soil’ and Subjected African-Americans to Deplorable Conditions Sentenced to 17 Years
A Virginia landlord who owned more than 60 properties, many of which were in poor condition, was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison on Dec. 18 for defrauding the government and committing years of racial abuse against African-American tenants. A federal judge sentenced David Merryman to 17 years in prison for orchestrating a fraud…
