From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1995:

This is our sixth annual report on the budgets, assets,
and salaries paid by the major national animal and habitat protection
groups, listed below in alphabetical order, together
with selected other organizations of note. It is the fourth of
these reports published in ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Each group is identified in the second column by
apparent focus and philosophy: A stands for advocacy, C for
conservation of habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for
support of hunting (either for “wildlife management” or recreation),
L for litigation, P for publication, R for animal rights,
S for shelter and sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection
issues, and W for animal welfare. The R and W designations
are used only if an organization makes a point of being
one or the other.
While many groups are involved in multiple activities,
space limits us to providing only four identifying letters.
Except where otherwise stated, the financial data
comes from current Internal Revenue Service Form 990 filings,
covering either calendar year or fiscal year 1994.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1995:

ANDALUSIA, Alabama––Ann Fields, 49,
founder of one of the most lucrative no-kill shelter scams
ever, died at home in Palm Springs, California on October
21 of an apparent heart attack. Her second husband, Victor
Lagunas, apparently many years younger, reportedly buried
Fields in Mexico.
Circa 1983, Fields and her first husband, Jerry
Fields, whom she divorced in 1993, founded a small outdoor
no-kill shelter near Conyers, Georgia, initially called Love
and Care for God’s Stray Animals. Questionable animal care
and high-pressure fundraising appeals soon drew notice from
at least four major national and regional humane groups, but
each was apparently scared away from attempted intervention
by Fields’ ability to portray herself to donors and the public as
a beleaguered saint, saving animals no one else would help,
claiming she was the victim of a mean-spirited conspiracy.
She meanwhile evaded creditors by repeatedly changing the
wording of her Love and Care business name, and by routing
donations to a variety of mail drops. Finally obliged to relocate
from Georgia to Alabama by a 1989 zoning dispute,
Fields left behind an unpaid federal tax lien of $574,889,
plus state tax liens of at least $31,000.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1995:

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.––Over the past four years Farm Sanctuary annual reports
have claimed $822,878 more in spending than Farm Sanctuary declared to the Internal
Revenue Service––and have ascribed $683,146 of that amount to program service. The ghost
expenditures have enabled Farm Sanctuary to claim that it spent 86% of revenues on programs
in 1993, and 88% on programs in 1994.
The income lines in the annual reports for fiscal years 1991 through 1994 match the
Farm Sanctuary IRS Form 990 filings, but the program spending and total expenditure lines
vary by as much as $257,961:
Year Program expense Difference Total expenditures Difference
To donors To IRS To donors To IRS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1995:

WASHINGTON, D.C.– – Humane
Society of the United States executive vice
president Patricia Forkan is to assume authority
over HSUS domestic operations effective
on January 1, 1996. HSUS president Paul
Irwin, now heading domestic operations, will
move over to head the umbrella organization,
Humane Society International, while current
HSI president John Hoyt, 65, will serve as
vice president until he retires in May, officially
for health reasons.
Former HSUS vice president for
investigations and legislation David Wills,
Hoyt’s longtime protege and onetime chosen
successor, was formally terminated on
October 14, two months after he was officially
placed on “administrative leave,” and was
in fact fired, in so many words, according to
a very highly placed informant. HSUS has
also sued Wills, seeking the recovery of
funds––believed to be about $16,500––
allegedly misappropriated to his personal use.

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