NEW YORK – Police and the FBI are investigating allegations that a radical animal rights organization – which claimed in September 2003 to have released 10,000 minks from a farm in Sultan, Wash. – is waging a campaign of intimidation against a pharmaceutical company executive and his family on Long Island.
The Animal Liberation Front, which is on the FBI watch list, last week posted on its Web site a communique claiming some of its members followed the executive’s wife to her job, entered her car, stole a credit card and funneled $20,000 of the family’s funds to charities. The man works for Manhattan-based Forest Laboratories Inc., which also has offices in the Long Island communities of Commack, Hauppauge and Farmingdale.
The organization said it had targeted Forest Laboratories because the firm does business with a company that performs tests on animals.
ALF said it had earlier spray-painted the man’s house and car, but “we can only assume” the man “did not get it the first time around … so we had to come back with something a little more potent.”
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