Freeport EMS fired their EMS Director, whistleblower Chris O’Leath, after he found sixty-two incidents of financial irregularities totaling nearly $100,000.

O’Leath audited Freeport EMS financial records and found sixty-two unauthorized transactions between January 2017 to May 2020 by the former organization Treasurer.

Freeport EMS Fired Their EMS Director Investigation

Mayor Jim Swartz said of O’Leath’s firing: “I don’t care if you’re a director, you still have bosses and when you are told to do things, you do things.”

State Trooper Anthony Vaccaro confirmed that an investigation is continuing. He is waiting for the results from a third-party forensic audit of the EMS’s books, he said.

In the 2021 letter to local media, O’Leath accused Justin DeAngelis, then a former treasurer of the EMS and Freeport Volunteer Fire Department, of stealing nearly $98,000 and then repaying the ambulance service.

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