ASPCA pays circus $9.3 million to settle suit related to elephant litigation

The Daily Caller ^ | 12/31/2012 | David Martosko

[Kolath]

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has agreed to pay the parent company of the Ringling Bros. Circus $9.3 million to settle allegations that the animal group conspired to pay a witness for false testimony in a 12-year lawsuit over the treatment of circus elephants.

[narses]

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[freedumb2003]

Just curious, how is this pro-life or Catholic related? Were the Elephants KofC or something...?

[count-your-change]

What’s a few lies when it’s for the sake of the elephants?

[doc1019]

or other threads of general interest

Perhaps this is a clue?

[narses]

Both maybe. It just seemed interesting.

[headstamp 2]

No wonder I’m seeing a commercial from them for donations every 5 minutes on the TV.

[doc1019]

Every year around this time we can expect to see all the sad ASPCA commercials (pulls on your heart strings during Christmas season) ... this year there seems to be more then usual, you may be right.

[Robwin]

Tip of the iceberg: Twelve other defendants including The Humane Society of the United States, the Animal Welfare Institute and The Fund for Animals are still involved in the lawsuit.

I hope Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey takes these self-righteous frauds for every dime they've got.

[skinkinthegrass]

note of interest; Why is this being reported by a British paper?
..any American papers pick it up?.. a spike job?
censorship by omission.

[freedumb2003]

Back to the issue at hand — I read the whole article and didn’t see anywhere were the alleged liar has been prosecuted for perjury.

Most peculiar...

[RetiredTexasVet]

So true, not a single word in any MSM media. Should have included a specific performance section in their settlement requiring them to purchase full page ads for a week in every town that they have an office admitting to their misconduct.

[FlJoePa]

The SPCA has done what too many others before them have done - they lost their focus. Worry about the doggies and the kittens SPCA. They need your help. No one cares about elephants.

[crosshairs]

[John123]

after documents turned over in discovery showed that the plaintiffs made payments — often through a nonprofit managed by their lawyers — to Rider.

At least the plaintiffs' lawyers were ethical, huh?

[lowbridge]

Bump

[castlegreyskull]

I saw this article on the msn.com a couple of days ago. They had it.

I take a special interest in this, because my father-in-law keeps up with all such stories. We go to the circus every year. I make a point to wear my coonskin hat, and wear a “Life After PETA shirt”, all while carry a bucket of KFC. Knowing that these a-holes will be in front of the arena with their “literature, trying to ruin a families’ night out.

[trebb]

I bet the ASPCA has no qualms about cruelty to babies thought. When they show some of the sad commercials about abused pets, my heart twinges, but I told my wife she can’t donate to them unless she contributes a whole lot more to saving the babies. She astutely noted that there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of commercials telling one how to go about saving the babies...