Palisades ‘Blockbusting’ Probe Nets DC’s AG $300,000

A developer must pay the D.C. Attorney General’s office $300,000 to settle allegations of “blockbusting” to try to turn a MacArthur Boulevard duplex into condos and force out an owner. “The tactics deployed by the defendant harken back to the type of overt discrimination that occurred more than 50 years ago,” Attorney General Karl A.…