A pair of Janesville landlords have agreed to pay hundreds of thousands in damages and a more than $100,000 civil penalty to the government to settle a lawsuit over sexual harassment allegations.

The U.S. Department of Justice says Richard and Mary Donahue, who own more than 100 residential rental units in the Janesville area, must pay $500,000 in monetary damages to 13 women the DOJ alleges were harmed by Richard Donahue.

The pair are also paying a $123,695 civil penalty to the government, which is the maximum civil penalty.

Mary Donahue, Richard’s wife, was named as a defendant in the lawsuit since she co-owned some of the properties.

A lawsuit filed in 2022 accused Richard Donahue of sexually harassing female tenants for more than 20 years by making repeated and unwelcome sexual comments and touching tenants’ bodies without their consent.