I'm going to email the reporter and ask if he knows what the claim is - will post his answer if he replies.
Another galling thing: We the taxpayers are paying for Angus's defense. (Thanks to decision by Gov. McGreevey's attorney general.) On what grounds, I wonder, was THAT decision made?
The state is providing his defense because he was acting on behalf of the state when he reported the alleged turtle. He was acting as an unpaid volunteer, whose assignment it was to go out and find and count endangered species.
What kind of person voluntarily goes out to work for the state tracking turtles through the woods for no pay? An environmentalist, that's who! So you have people who have a certain point of view acting on behalf of the state without supervision, who have the authority to take land from landowners on a whim. This is what the state is defending.