Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan is demanding a decade of financial records from the owners of a condemned Dublin Borough rooming house. Khan filed an amended complaint Monday, Sept. 14, naming 13 tenants as victims in the escalating consumer protection case.

The filing in Bucks County Common Pleas Court launches civil discovery against Richard Goetter and his business, R&R Enterprises, according to Patch. Prosecutors are demanding ownership documents, tax returns, insurance policies, rent payment records and evidence of any taxpayer-funded emergency rent relief or nonprofit aid the business received since 2013.

The DA's office also wants all written messages between business partners about broken equipment, needed repairs, tenant evictions and local code violations. Defendants have 30 days to produce the records.

"It's now time to open up this business's financial records to show where the money is so that we can help these victims recover and move on with their lives," Khan said.

The original lawsuit, filed April 20, targeted the eight-room rooming house at 113 S. Main St. in Dublin Borough. Local officials had condemned the building for dangerous health and fire hazards, including no working central heat since 2013. Six tenants were relocated with help from the county's Human Services Co-Responders Program.

Seven more former residents have since come forward. The total now stands at 13.

The April case marked the first time the DA's Office used Pennsylvania's Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (UTPCPL) against a landlord, the Bucks County Herald reported.

Richard Goetter, of Coopersburg, and his brother Ronald Goetter, of Tucson, Arizona, operate R&R Enterprises. The DA alleges the brothers collected roughly $2,000 a month in rent from tenants who paid between $720 and $920 each, according to the Bucks County Courier Times.

Among the tenants: at least three were 60 or older, one was an amputee, and a mother and her 11-year-old child lived in the building for five months.

Conditions documented inside included black mold, rodent and cockroach infestations, an overwhelming odor of human waste, only one working bathroom out of three, one smoke detector and spliced electrical wiring. A home health care worker reported in 2023 that the front porch's rotting supports were braced with broomsticks, cardboard boxes and a large rock.

Richard Goetter pleaded guilty to rodent control violations issued by the Bucks County Health Department as recently as 2024.

When the original suit was announced April 20, Dublin Borough Police Chief Michael Regan called the property "one of the worst cases of squalor and hoarding that I have seen in my 45 years of law enforcement."

The DA's office is seeking a permanent injunction against the Goetters, restitution for victims and civil penalties up to $3,000 per violation for offenses involving tenants 60 or older. No response from the Goetters or their attorneys to the Sept. 14 filing appears in public records. Attorney Steven Jones represented Richard Goetter as of June; Ronald Goetter did not have legal representation at that time, according to the civil court docket.

The defendants' 30-day deadline to produce records falls in mid-October.