Deadbeat child killer Joel Steinberg —who is 10 years late on a $15 million courtordered award to the mother of the little girl he adopted and then murdered — has a chunk of money sitting in an unclaimed account.
The old Chemical Bank account was reported to the state Comptroller’s Office Unclaimed Funds Bureau in 1996 while Steinberg — who prosecutors said was once worth $2 million — was serving a 17-year sentence for manslaughter.
Although the balance is not listed, the address on the account is the filthy Greenwich Village apartment where Steinberg and his girlfriend, Hedda Nussbaum, were freebasing cocaine before police arrived to find 6-year-old Lisa unconscious in 1987.
Birth mom Michele Saunder’s attorney wasn’t aware of the money.
“We will look at it,” Wayne Schaefer said.
