Landlord asks judge to dismiss racketeering suit

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | September 26, 2008

TRENTON, N.J. - A large management company with properties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania filed a motion this week to dismiss portions of a lawsuit that seeks to use anti-mob legislation to stop the company from renting apartments to illegal immigrants. The suit, filed in June in U.S. District Court in Newark by a national organization that favors tighter immigation restrictions, alleges that Plainfield-based Connolly Properties has so many undocumented tenants in its buildings that it constitutes unlawful harboring. The lawsuit cites the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act , or RICO , which prosecutes organized crime and immigration-related offenses, including human trafficking and harboring and smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S.

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