This story was originally published by The Modesto Focus.
The meteoric rise in recent years of Legacy Alliance Outreach, a nonprofit once idolized by elected and civic leaders in Modesto and Stanislaus County and backed by millions of dollars in public money, stands in stark contrast to its dramatic fall.
Since being dismissed from multimillion-dollar government grants in March, Legacy Alliance and its founder, Michael Baldwin Sr., have come under FBI investigation, he and others confirmed…