Gray's town manager bought a $1.25 million firetruck the council never approved, then quit
In January 2026 Gray Town Council Chair Michael Johnson said former Town Manager Michael Foley, a former Westbrook mayor who resigned in November 2025, bought a roughly $1.25 million firetruck in February 2025 using about $1.5 million he believed was available from a 2019 audit, though that money had already been spent; councilors were not told and no one caught the error until June 2025. Johnson said Foley also left more than $140,000 in ambulance-service bills unreported, and that his town laptop had been reset to factory settings. Separately, Gray paid about $104,000 on a fraudulent invoice now under FBI investigation. Foley denies wrongdoing, saying funds were identified as available and disclosed in budgets. He has not been accused of a crime. The town said it may lose $100,000 if it sells the truck.
Johnson said that purchase, along with $140,000 in expenditures for ambulance services, had not been reported to councilors by Foley, who resigned from his position in November.
However, Johnson said, those funds had already been spent before Foley purchased the truck, and that no one discovered the error until June 2025.
Foley says “funds were identified as available” and that he never intended to conceal or destroy information.
Chair Michael Johnson said the council will require approval of expenditures before they are made.
No outcome recorded yet.