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Rehab center mismanagement puts addicts' recovery at risk

For men and women struggling to beat addiction to drugs or booze, American Restoration Centers promises a sober living environment where they can become "healthy, active and productive'' members of society again. • ARC, as it is known, has as many as 60 clients paying $125 to $135 a week to stay in houses throughout Pinellas County. • But soon they could all be out on the street because of mismanagement by a real estate speculator once arrested for bilking people in Connecticut.

While ARC is still collecting money from the residents, it and a sister company owe tens of thousands of dollars to the property owners, at least one of whom has started eviction proceedings.

"We don't know how long we have left to stay here,'' says George Lacagnina, 42, standing outside an ARC house in Seminole. "And no one has anywhere else to go.''

As a large industry has emerged to treat addicts, some of the people trying to capitalize on this opportunity arguably have done more harm than good.

"It's making money off people who are in crisis,'' said Michael Sautter, ARC's former operations manager. "People are being hurt.''

ARC began as a halfway house program in 2006 and was taken over in 2010 by entrepreneur John Donald Folger. While living in Connecticut in the 1990s, Folger was accused of scamming employees and members of a shopping club he owned.

Now Folger is president of American Community Development Group, a new St. Petersburg public company whose shares are traded over the counter. It promotes itself as a "socially responsible'' company that will help government agencies and nonprofit groups provide housing for ex-offenders and substance abusers.

In October, the company announced plans to acquire 1,000 properties in the Tampa Bay area by the end of 2012. But so far it has bought only one property — a ramshackle boarding house off Interstate 275 in St. Petersburg that houses seven ARC clients, all addicts.

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