Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., blamed a processing error after news broke that he had allegedly accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in back rent on a property in Washington, D.C., and is being sued by the unit’s management company.

Independent reporter Roger Sollenberger on Monday published court filings from a lawsuit in which Bozzuto Management Company accuses Mills of failing to pay about $85,000 in rent on a penthouse in D.C., for which the monthly rent is $20,833, between March and July.

The company previously served Mills with a notice to pay more than $18,000 in past-due rent by the end of February and a notice that the company intends to file a lawsuit over the issue. The management company is now requesting the court’s permission to evict Mills and order him to make monthly payments until the back rent is fully paid.

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