NEW YORK
Albay Times Union
By Brendan J. Lyons
Published 3:28 pm, Wednesday, December 12, 2012
SCHENECTADY — A task force of FBI agents and state Attorney General’s investigators raided three offices tied to the Altamont Program early Wednesday, carting away records and computers from the statewide non-profit organization that was founded decades ago by Father Peter Young.
Agents from both agencies used search warrants to seize records at the Altamont Program’s headquarters on Duane Avenue in Schenectady and also from an office at the Schuyler Inn in Menands, a converted training and housing facility for Vesta Community Housing Development Board, Inc., which rehabilitates buildings that are rented to community service programs or low-income tenants.
Another raid took place at an office on Eagle Street in Albany that’s used by the organization.
Young, 82, is an iconic Capital Region priest whose work with drug addicts and convicts began in the 1950s. He lived with Bishop Howard Hubbard in the 1960s at the former St. John’s Church in Albany’s South End, where the two priests laid groundwork for drug rehabilitation programs that served as the template for community service organization.
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