NEW YORK
Albany Times Union
By Brendan J. Lyons
Published 11:49 pm, Friday, December 14, 2012
ALBANY — Father Peter Young, an Albany priest who heads a broad network of nonprofit support services for former convicts and addicts, said law enforcement raids of his offices this week has unsettled his organization and he’s uncertain why it was necessary.
“I don’t know where it’s going to go,” said Young, 82, in his first public comments since Wednesday’s raid by a task force of federal and state investigators.
The raids took place at the Schenectady headquarters of The Altamont Program, and at two of the organization’s offices in Menands and Albany. State attorney general’s investigators, accompanied by FBI agents, interviewed employees while they seized computers and a trove of financial records.
“It scared our staff half to death because many are on parole,” Young said. “They were sort of put in a room and couldn’t move. Everyone’s computer went. There was no dialogue and we didn’t know what was going on.”
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