“Having difficulty finding valid legal addresses,” says plaintiff’s attorney MONTREAL––Proceedings in a lawsuit filed by the Montreal SPCA to try to recover the use of the domain name <spca.com> from SPCA International have been delayed because the plaintiffs are having difficulty finding valid legal addresses at which to serve notice on some of the defendants, […]
David Wills, ex-Humane Society of the U.S. vice president, gets life in prison
Life sentence rendered after case was before the courts for five years CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas––David Keith Wills, 68, former Michigan Humane Society executive director and vice president for investigations at the Humane Society of the U.S., was on September 22, 2020 formally sentenced to serve life in federal; prison. Wills was convicted on October 8, […]
Holy cow! Humane Society of Canada loses last bid to keep tax-exempt status
Canadian Revenue Agency finds speculating in comic books “inappropriate” TORONTO, Ontario––Losing a last appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, the Humane Society of Canada appears to be on the verge of losing tax-exempt status, nine years after flunking a Canadian Revenue Agency audit over alleged misuse of donated funds by Michael O’Sullivan, the […]
David Wills: archived exposés, 1995-1999
by Merritt Clifton David K. Wills, 62, charged in multiple Texas counties in 2015 for alleged felonious continuous sexual abuse of a child and continuous trafficking of a child, first came to my notice as an investigative subject in September 1989, through conduct which, unknown to him, I personally witnessed. As news editor at the time […]
Humane Society of Canada stripped of charitable status
President allegedly bought comic books with society money OTTAWA––The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal on August 19, 2015 upheld a November 17, 2014 decision to revoke the charitable registration of the Humane Society of Canada, formally called the Humane Society of Canada for the Protection of Animals and the Environment. An advocacy organization, the […]
HSUS isn’t talking
by Merritt Clifton November 1995 WASHINGTON D.C. ––At deadline the Humane Society of the U.S. had neither confirmed nor denied a report from an HSUS source that the board of directors, responding to a petition signed by 41 staffers, agreed over the Columbus Day weekend, October 7-9, to prosecute David Wills, 48, for allegedly embezzling […]
Humane Society of the U.S. settles affairs without a Wills
by Merritt Clifton 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 […]