Erie County is pulling funds from the addiction treatment program in light of audits that uncovered fiscal mismanagement and other problems. Its founder, who recently stepped down, denies any wrongdoing.
Save the Michaels, a prominent addiction services provider, will lose its Erie County funding this summer following a state audit that identified years of fiscal mismanagement.
The county’s decision to pull its support coincides with an Investigative Post investigation into the nonprofit agency that found slipshod financial practices, a hostile work environment and inaction by state and local regulators.
It also comes on the heels of Save the Michaels founder Avi Israel’s resignation as chief executive, two years after an Erie County official first sounded alarms about the organization…