Thursday, February 25, 2010

Racketeering lawsuit brought against HSUS

Humanewatch reports that the owners of the Ringling Brothers Circus are suing the HSUS and accusing them of racketeering - including laundering money through a shell charity and paying a witness $190,000 in exchange for testimony alleging that the circus abused elephants in their care. The abuse case, brought in New York, was tossed out by the presiding judge, who found that the main witness was not credible. 

I am going to be watching this one...

1 comment:

  1. Fascinating - keep us posted
    SBW

    PS i found your blog through Chads
    http://mallardofdiscontent.blogspot.com/

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