Daily News | 12 Philadelphia judges didn’t follow city laws on their rental properties
Patrick Christmas, policy director of the good-government group Committee of Seventy, said these deficiencies were unacceptable from judges and“Our elected officials, including our judges, need to hold themselves to the highest standards,” he said. “If they’re not doing this, why should they expect anything different from the general public?”
James DeLeon, a Municipal Court judge for more than 30 years before retiring in 2021 to run for mayor, owns a four-unit building with his wife in Germantown; its license had been expired for two years when the newspaper called. His wife, Marilyn Rigmaiden DeLeon, who manages the property, said this was because “the city botched the rollout of the lead-based paint requirement for landlords.”
Papademetriou did not respond to messages left at her chambers. Reached by phone, Belisonzi declined to comment.While most judges updated their licenses after The Inquirer called, three Common Pleas Court judges did not. “I do not own that property,” Mallios wrote in an email responding to an Inquirer reporter’s questions. “Be very, very careful what you write about me.”
Picard Losier owes more than $6,000 in taxes on the three-story building with a boarded-up first floor. Since 2021, the city has placed more than $4,000 in liens on the property for its real estate tax delinquency. In April, it escalated its collection efforts by filing for the court-appointed receiver.
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