The former owners of a Southeast D.C. high-rise apartment complex have been ordered to pay $41 million in a lawsuit that claimed the building was unsafe.

That’s the largest judgment ever made against a D.C. property owner, and one of the largest housing conditions judgments against a landlord in U.S. history, according to D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s office.

The lawsuit centers on the apartment complex once called Marbury Plaza. According to court records, the former owners were MP PPH LLC and Dr. Anthony Pilavas.

The apartment complex has since been renamed Langston Views.

Schwalb’s office said the former owners neglected the “safety and habitability of the complex, defying a court order to fix dangerous conditions there,” and putting more than 2,500 tenants “at risk by forcing them to live with chronic water leaks, widespread mold, and a lack of air conditioning, heat, and hot water.”

Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tomora Redman, who lived at the apartment complex for 28 years, said the building was overwhelmed by mold.