LISA MADIGAN SUES PET RESCUE
Chicagoland Tails
LISA MADIGAN SUES PET RESCUE
By Agnes Jasinski
Following continuous delays and protests from those frustrated by a lack of progress in court, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has sued the president of the Bloomingdale animal shelter Pet Rescue for mismanagement of funds and a slew of other tax and funding violations. The owners of Pet Rescue, a no-kill shelter, have been accused of 20 counts of animal cruelty, but the trial against them has been pushed back several times.Former volunteers and employees of the facility at 151 N. Bloomingdale Rd. claim they have seen the improper care of animals sheltered there firsthand, the situation only worsening in the 30 years since it has been operating. A recent protest outside the DuPage County courthouse was a response to the latest continuance awarded to the defense.In the allegations filed by Madigan, the attorney general claims Pet Rescue’s president, Dale Armon, spent at least $70,000 of the shelter’s funds for personal use in the last two years alone. Pet Rescue took in more than $1.2 million in public donations between 2006 and 2007, according to an article in the Daily Herald. The shelter’s president could face six months in jail and more than $50,000 in fines.
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