Why Should Delaware Care? One of the largest recipients of Delaware’s opioid settlement funds to date is at risk of being lost due to unpaid taxes to the city of Wilmington. It is just the latest episode to raise questions regarding the vetting and monitoring of the state’s opioid fund.
The city of Wilmington intends to take a former school building that recently received a nearly half-million-dollar facelift, paid for by a state fund designed to help people suffering from addiction, to sheriff’s sale.
The city said it made the decision after the building’s owner – which includes prominent local businessman Ernest “Sammy” Congo Sr. – failed to pay more than $300,000 in property taxes on the building and on a neighboring parcel, located off West 28th Street. …