By Bob Warner, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dec. 12–Years of slipshod record-keeping and careless service by the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office left thousands of victims who never saw the money they were owed — about $30 million, in total — after the sheriff auctioned off their foreclosed homes.
Now, authorities are initiating efforts to pay off those debts.
The Pennsylvania Treasury Department says it has added more than 2,000 former property owners to its list of people owed money for abandoned-property claims, based on 2,348 Philadelphia sheriff sales worth about $10 million between 2001 and 2005.
An additional $7.2 million is owed to people whose homes were sold at sheriff sales between 2006 and 2009.
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