UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
Criminal No. v. :
18 U.S.C. §§ 43, 371, 2261A, and 2
Indictment
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL
CRUELTY USA, INC.,
KEVIN KJONAAS, a/k/a
“Kevin Jonas,” a/k/a “Steve
Shore,” a/k/a “Jim Fareer,”
LAUREN GAZZOLA,
a/k/a “Angela Jackson,” a/k/a
“Danielle Matthews,”
JACOB CONROY,
JOSHUA HARPER,
ANDREW STEPANIAN,
DARIUS FULLMER,
JOHN MCGEE
The Grand Jury in and for the District of New Jersey,
sitting at Newark, charges:
COUNT ONE
1. At times relevant to this Indictment:
INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES
a. Huntingdon Life Sciences (“HLS”) was a corporation
organized under the laws of the State of Delaware with its
principal place of business at the Princeton Research Center, 100
Mettlers Lane, East Millstone, New Jersey. HLS trades on the
stock exchange as company symbol LSRI. HLS was started and
maintains facilities in the United Kingdom. It is one of the
leading pharmaceutical testing companies. As part of its drug
testing procedures, many of which are mandated by law, HLS uses
animals for, among other things, testing the safety of drugs and
chemicals that various manufacturers seek to bring to market.
HLS is an “animal enterprise” as that term is defined by Title
18, United States Code, Section 43(d)(1), in that it is a
commercial enterprise that uses animals for research and testing.
As part of its business operation, HLS utilizes a website as well
as e-mail.
b. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, USA (“SHAC”) was a
not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the
State of Delaware, with its principal place of business located
in New Jersey. SHAC is an organization first started in the
United Kingdom and then incorporated in the United States. SHAC
was formed to interrupt the business of HLS and ultimately to
force it to cease operations altogether due to its use of animals
for research and testing. SHAC has used a multi-pronged attack
against HLS targeting its workers and shareholders as well as
companies (and their employees) which received services from, or
provided them to, HLS. SHAC distributed a newsletter and
operated a series of websites that disseminated its animal rights
ideology and furthered its mission by, among other things,
posting information relating to individuals and organizations
that SHAC targeted for action. This information included the
names, addresses and other personal information about individuals
who were employed by HLS and other targeted companies. These
websites included www.shacusa.net; www.shacamerica.com;
www.shacamerica.net; www.shacamerica.org; www.stephenskills.com;
and www.december1.com (hereinafter sometimes collectively
referred to as the “SHAC Website”). The activities of SHAC and
the SHAC Website were chosen and coordinated at various times by
the defendants KEVIN KJONAS, a/k/a “Kevin Jonas,” a/k/a “Steve
Shore,” a/k/a “Jim Fareer,” LAUREN GAZZOLA, a/k/a “Angela
Jackson,” a/k/a “Danielle Matthews,” JACOB CONROY, JOSHUA HARPER,
ANDREW STEPANIAN, and DARIUS FULLMER.
c. Defendant KEVIN KJONAS, a/k/a “Kevin Jonas,” a/k/a
“Steve Shore,” a/k/a “Jim Fareer” was the President of SHAC and
resided in New Jersey.
d. Defendant LAUREN GAZZOLA, a/k/a “Angela Jackson,”
a/k/a “Danielle Matthews” was the campaign coordinator for SHAC
and resided in New Jersey.
e. Defendant JACOB CONROY was affiliated with SHAC and
resided in New Jersey.
f. Defendant JOSHUA HARPER was affiliated with SHAC
and resided in Seattle, Washington.
g. Defendant ANDREW STEPANIAN was affiliated with SHAC
and resided in New York.
h. Defendant DARIUS FULLMER was affiliated with SHAC
and resided in New Jersey.
i. Defendant JOHN MCGEE was affiliated with SHAC and
resided in New Jersey.
j. “S. Inc.” was an investment banking firm with its
principal place of business in Little Rock, Arkansas. As part of
its business operation, S. Inc. utilized a website as well as email.
k. “M. Corp.” was a company with its principal place
of business in New York, New York, which provided insurance
brokerage services on behalf of large corporations and others.
As part of its business operation, M. Corp. utilized a website as
well as e-mail.
l. “Q” was a company headquartered in New York, New
York, involved in investing in companies on behalf of clients.
As part of its business operation, Q utilized a website as well
as e-mail.
m. “W. Corp.” was a company headquartered in Jersey
City, New Jersey, involved in trading the stock of publicly
traded companies on behalf of clients. As part of its business
operation, W. Corp. utilized a website as well as e-mail.
n. “BNY” was a financial institution having its
principal place of business in New York, New York, which provided
financial services to individuals and corporations. As part of
its business operation, BNY utilized a website as well as e-mail.
o. “C. Corp.” was a global pharmaceutical company
headquarted in Emeryville, California. As part of its business
operation, C. Corp. utilized a website as well as e-mail.
2. From at least as early as October, 2001, through
February, 2004, at Somerset, in the District of New Jersey, and
elsewhere, defendants
STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL CRUELTY, USA INC.,
KEVIN KJONAAS, a/k/a “Kevin Jonas,”
a/k/a “Steve Shore,” a/k/a “Jim Fareer,”
LAUREN GAZZOLA,
a/k/a “Angela Jackson,” a/k/a “Danielle Matthews,”
JACOB CONROY,
JOSHUA HARPER,
ANDREW STEPANIAN
DARIUS FULLMER, and
JOHN MCGEE
did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire and agree with one
another and others to use a facility in interstate and foreign
commerce for the purpose of causing physical disruption to the
functioning of HLS, an animal enterprise, and intentionally
damage and cause the loss of property used by HLS, in an amount
exceeding $10,000.
OBJECT OF THE CONSPIRACY
3. It was the object of the conspiracy to physically
disrupt the operations of HLS and drive it out of business either
by: (a) directly disrupting the business of HLS or (b) disrupting
the business of companies that either provided services to, or
purchased services from, HLS, thereby forcing those businesses to
cease doing business with HLS and make it impossible for HLS to
conduct its business.
MANNER AND MEANS
4. It was part of the conspiracy that the defendants
embarked on a campaign to enlist animal rights activists to
engage in activity meant to harm the business of HLS in any
manner available.
5. It was further part of the conspiracy that e-mail
and web-based communications were used to disseminate information
and coordinate the campaign to shut down HLS.
6. It was further part of the conspiracy that the
defendants espoused and encouraged others to engage in “direct
action,” which as described by SHAC involved activities that
“operate outside the confines of the legal system.” For
instance, the SHAC Website posted what it termed the “top 20
terror tactics,” which described “direct actions” that could be
taken against companies or individuals such as:
demonstrations at oneÂ’s home using a loudspeaker;
abusive graffiti, posters and stickers on oneÂ’s car and
house;
invading offices and, damaging property and stealing
documents;
chaining gates shut, and blocking gates;
physical assault including spraying cleaning fluid into
oneÂ’s eyes;
smashing the windows of oneÂ’s house while the
individualÂ’s family was at home;
flooding oneÂ’s home while the individual was away;
vandalizing oneÂ’s car;
firebombing oneÂ’s car;
bomb hoaxes;
threatening telephone calls and letters including
threats to kill or injure oneÂ’s partner or children;
e-mail bombs in an attempt to crash computers;
sending continuous black faxes causing fax machines to
burn out;
telephone blockades by repeated dialing to prevent the
use of the telephone; and
arranging for an undertaker to call to collect oneÂ’s
body.
7. It was further part of the conspiracy to conduct
telephone and e-mail blitzes, fax blitzes and computer blockades
against HLS in order to divert HLS employees from their regular
work.
8. It was further part of the conspiracy that
information would be disseminated through the SHAC Website to
coordinate computer attacks on HLS with the intent of causing
damage to, or shutting down, HLSÂ’ computer systems.
9. It was further part of the conspiracy that SHAC
would post the names, addresses, home telephone numbers and other
personal information of HLS employees on the SHAC Website and
encourage people to engage in acts of harassment and intimidation
against those HLS employees at their homes, through mailings,
telephone calls, home demonstrations, vandalism of their real and
personal property and other “direct action,” in an attempt to
place them in reasonable fear of serious bodily injury and/or
death and cause targets to resign from HLS and thereby further
disrupt HLSÂ’ business activities.
10. It was further part of the conspiracy that acts of
intimidation and vandalism perpetrated on HLS employees would be
reported on the SHAC Website in a manner designed to foster
additional acts against those same employees as well as others
whose personal information had been posted on the SHAC Website.
11. It was further part of the conspiracy that acts
perpetrated on HLS and its employees, which were reported on the
SHAC Website, would be used as examples in order to intimidate,
harass and threaten other individuals and companies and place
individuals in a reasonable fear of serious bodily injury and/or
death.
12. It was further part of the conspiracy that each
week SHAC designated a company that was either doing business
with HLS or was a customer of HLS as the “target of the week” in
order to make that company the victim of “direct action” by
animal rights supporters and force the company to cease its
business relationship with HLS.
13. It was further part of the conspiracy that SHAC
targeted certain companies on an ongoing basis in order to
pressure those companies into ceasing their business
relationships with HLS. SHAC and the defendants selected as
“ongoing targets” certain companies deemed vital to HLS’ ability
to maintain its business operation.
14. It was further part of the conspiracy that once a
company was either a “target of the week” or an ongoing target of
the campaign to shut down HLS, those companies would be subject
to many of the same “direct actions” that HLS itself was
subjected to. Thus, these target companies would be the
recipients of telephone and e-mail blitzes, fax blitzes and
computer blockades designed to harm their businesses and thereby
force them to cease doing business with HLS.
15. It was further part of the conspiracy that
information would be disseminated through the SHAC Website to
coordinate computer attacks on certain “targets of the week” or
“ongoing targets” in order to cause damage to, or shut down, the
computer systems of the target company.
16. It was further part of the conspiracy that once a
company was either a “target of the week” or an “ongoing target,”
employees of those companies would be subject to many of the same
“direct actions” that HLS employees were subjected to. Thus, the
names, addresses, home telephone numbers and other personal
information of employees of the target companies would be posted
on the SHAC Website, and viewers of the website were encouraged
to engage in acts of harassment and intimidation against those
employees at their homes, through mailings, telephone calls, home
demonstrations and vandalism of their real and personal property.
This was done to threaten and intimidate individuals employed by
companies doing business with HLS to place them in reasonable
fear of serious bodily injury and/or death and to cause them to
resign their positions. The defendants thereby intended to
disrupt the operations of the target companies and force them to
cease doing business with HLS, which in turn would disrupt HLSÂ’
business.
17. It was further part of the conspiracy that the
SHAC Website reported on acts perpetrated on “targets of the
week” or “ongoing targets” and their employees, to be used as
examples to intimidate, harass and threaten other individuals and
companies and place individuals in a reasonable fear of serious
bodily injury and/or death.
18. It was further part of the conspiracy that
defendants and others would take steps to conceal their conduct
by, among other things, using false names; using computer
programs designed to scramble e-mail messages so that they could
not be read or understood by anyone other than an individual
having the proper code; burning documents; falsely attributing
conduct to other entities; and using computer software to wipe
information from computer hard drives.
OVERT ACTS
In furtherance of the conspiracy and in order to effect
its object, the following acts were committed in the District of
New Jersey and elsewhere:
I. THE ATTACKS ON HLS AND ITS EMPLOYEES
19. On or about February 15, 2001, the SHAC Website
posted an announcement which stated in part: “we’ll be at their
offices, at their doorsteps, on their phones or in their
computers. There will be no rest for the wicked.”
20. On or about March 6, 2001, the SHAC Website listed
the “top 20 terror tactics” that could be used against
organizations and individuals in order to harm HLS and ultimately
cause it to shut down.
21. On or about March 31, 2001, after the SHAC Website
postings described above, protesters appeared at the New Jersey
residence of HJ, an HLS employee, and banged on the windows and
doors at his home.
22. On or about April 2, 2001, after the SHAC Website
postings described above, rocks were thrown through windows of
HJÂ’s home; one of the cars in HJÂ’s driveway was overturned and
vandalized; and a second car in HJÂ’s driveway was also
vandalized.
23. On or about May 30, 2001, defendant JOHN MCGEE and
another slashed the tires on the car of DD, an HLS employee, and
spray painted on his house.
24. After the May 30, 2001 attack on the home of DD,
the SHAC Website posted names and home addresses of HLS employees
and stated with respect to DD that his home “was visited several
times, had car windows broke, tires slashed, house spray painted
with slogans. His wife is reportedly on the brink of a nervous
breakdown and divorce.”
25. In or about June, 2002, the SHAC Website announced
an electronic form of attack against HLS and posted a computer
application designed to cause certain commands to be sent
automatically to the HLS website.
26. In or about June, 2002, individuals using the
above utility caused HLSÂ’ server to overload, rendering it, and
hence the HLS website, inoperable.
27. On or about July 12, 2002, the SHAC Website
announced that its “multi pronged attack on the workers,
shareholders and clients” of HLS was being successfully carried
out.
28. In or about October, 2002, the SHAC Website posted
an announcement listing the home address and telephone number of
CA, an HLS employee.
29. On or about October 21, 2002, the SHAC Website
posted an announcement relating to signs that were posted in and
around the Princeton, New Jersey area, which referred to CA as
“deluded and deranged” and listed her home address and telephone
number.
30. On or about November 17, 2002, the SHAC Website
posted an announcement stating, in part, that HJ and another HLS
employee “resigned after months of pressure, including protests,
property destruction, [and] phone blockades at home and work.”
31. In or about December, 2003, individuals engaged in
a “Distributed Denial of Service” against HLS known as a “Zombie
Attack,” which caused the HLS website to be inoperable.
32. In or about December, 2003, the SHAC Website
reported on the “Zombie Attack” on HLS, attributing the attack to
Russian computer hackers.
II. THE ATTACK ON S. INC.
33. In or about October, 2000, SHAC caused the website
www.stephenskills.com to be launched in order to apply pressure
on S. Inc. to cease doing business with HLS.
34. On or about February 28, 2001, the SHAC Website
announced a successful electronic attack against S. Inc. which
“saw over a thousand activists activate a floodnet program from
their computers that enabled them to ‘flood’ S. Inc.’s website
several times per minute with download requests thereby slowing
down and clogging up the system.”
35. On or about January 3, 2002, the SHAC Website,
claiming that it received an anonymous report, announced that the
home of WS, the head of S. Inc., was vandalized in the early
morning hours of January 3. Specifically, the web-posting stated
that activists “jumped over his gate to gain access to the front
of the house …. quickly smashed out his porch lights and
windows, and as an alarm went off, plastered the front of his
house with over 15 paint bombs …. then spray painted PUPPY
KILLER on the sidewalk and ran off.”
III. THE ATTACK ON M. CORP.
36. In or about February 10, 2002, the SHAC Website
listed M. Corp. as a target. The SHAC website stated, “hitting
their insurance company will keep HLS on the defensive … and
show SHAC sets the pace … [L]et M*** know that we are about to
raise the premium on pain.” The website posting also advised
readers to “stay tuned for office addresses and internal phone
numbers.”
37. In or about March, 2002, the SHAC Website listed
the names and addresses of various M. Corp. employees around the
United States including SD and MR. In addition, the SHAC website
listed, in certain instances, the home telephone numbers of M.
Corp. employees; the names of their spouses; the names, ages and
dates of birth of their children; where these children attended
school; license plate numbers of the employeesÂ’ cars; and the
churches that the employees and their families attended.
38. On or about March 9, 2002, the home of SD, an
employee of M. Corp., was vandalized.
39. On or about March 10, 2002, the SHAC Website
posted a report of the vandalism at the home of SD.
40. On or about March 9, 2002, the home of MR, an
employee of M. Corp., was vandalized.
41. On or about March 10, 2002 the SHAC Website posted
a report of the vandalism at the home of MR.
42. On or about August 3, 2002 and dates thereafter,
individuals harassed MH and protested at the home of MH, an
employee of a subsidiary of M. Corp., whose home address had been
posted on the SHAC Website.
43. On or about July 29, 2002, the SHAC Website
announced that FT, a Director at M. Corp., was scheduled to be at
the Lightpath Golf Tournament at the Meadowbrook Golf Club in New
York from July 29 through August 4, 2002. The web posting also
listed FTÂ’s home address and home telephone and fax number.
44. On or about July 30, 2002, the Meadowbrook Golf
Club was vandalized; its putting greens were destroyed and the
words “FT pup-killer wuz hea” were dug into the grass on one of
the greens.
45. On or about August 1, 2002, the SHAC Website
posted the following message:
The FT Commando Division of the Animal
Liberation Front claims responsibility for
the destruction of 4 greens and 4 holes at
the Meadowbrook Golf Club/PGA Lightpath
classic. FT, BMOC to M Corp., and his super
friends /League of Justice wreaked havoc upon
the course, sabotaging all of the PGAÂ’s week
long tournement [sic]. The FT commandos dug
3 foot deep holes at 4 of the 18 holes,
removed the metal casings and flags, scarred
each putting green with different trenches
and holes.
….
Damages from this action may in fact exceed
hundreds of thousands of dollars between the
damage to the well-maintained golf course,
the disruption to the PGA event and to the
club itself.
46. On or about September 17, 2002, the SHAC Website
posted the following: “25 activists paid a visit to the posh
Plandome home of FT, director at M. Corp…. Chants of ‘blood
money! – his beach!, blood money! – his pool!, blood money! – his
yacht!Â’ and bullhorn speakouts describing his role in the murder
of 500 animals daily drove neighbors out of their houses to see
what was all the commotion….”
47. On or about September 19, 2002, individuals
vandalized the home of FT, spray painting the words “murder,”
“leave town,” and “M*** pull out of HLS” on his and his
neighborÂ’s property.
48. On or about September 21, 2002, the SHAC Website
posted the following:
Last evening members of the Animal Liberation
Front, paid a visit to the home of FT,
honorary director to M Corp. We have been
monitoring the protection and home for quite
some time now, FT we were well aware of the
security patrols at your home, the guards and
their shift changes and the fact that last
week they cut the security from 24 hrs. a
day, every day, to fri/sat/Sunday and then
decided to go back to full time security. Did
you think that armed guards or the
installation of motion sensors, cameras,
lights, and steel grating around your
basement windows would somehow make the
animal liberation movement go away? Of
course not!
Last evening we waited for your security
guard to fall asleep then went right in under
their noses and got to painting, leaving your
house a red bloody mess, just like your
hands!
FTÂ’s home was donned with anti-HLS and ALF
slogans, the words “killer” and “murderer
leave town” can be seen all the way across
the harbor.
The posting went on to threaten that this was “only the
beginning.”
49. On or about June 15, 2002, individuals vandalized
the home of RH, an employee of M. Corp.
50. On or about August 10, 2002, members of the
conspiracy, including defendant LAUREN GAZZOLA, assembled outside
the home of RH, an employee of M. Corp. and, using a megaphone,
threatened RH, his wife and family with burning down their home.
51. On or about August 11, 2002, SHAC Website posted a
report of the demonstration at the home of RH.
52. On or about April 21, 2002, individuals assembled
outside the home and on the deck and private property surrounding
the home of ML, an M. Corp. employee. The demonstrators banged
on the home and its windows, and shouted that they knew where ML
worked, knew where ML lived and would be back.
53. On or about July 10, 2002, a smoke bomb was set
off at the offices of a subsidiary of M. Corp. in Seattle,
Washington causing the evacuation of a high-rise office tower,
and a second smoke bomb was set off at the offices of M. Corp. in
Seattle, Washington, causing the evacuation of that high-rise
office tower as well. After these events, the SHAC Website
posted a report about the smoke bomb attacks.
IV. THE ATTACK ON Q
54. On or about October 23, 2001, an e-mail was sent
to animal rights activists targeting Q as an “hls: Investor of
the week.” The e-mail also listed personal information regarding
PQ, a principal of Q, including his home address; home telephone
number; the address of his vacation home and its telephone
number; the make and license plate number of his automobile; a
description of him and his wife; the name of his dog; and his
brotherÂ’s name, address and home telephone number. The e-mail
stated:
Now more than ever, we need to hit hlsÂ’s
other two original investors who have
callously stood by the lab through two
damning undercover investigations. In the
Financial Times article P***** Q****** is
quoted as saying, ‘We have received a lot of
harassment, but it hasnÂ’t changed our
position.” Since both have been listed as
Investor of the Week before and have not
budged from their backing of animal cruelty,
we have decided to be more stern in our
tactics and strategic in our focus. Below is
not only the contact information for QÂ’s
office but also personal information
anonymously leaked to SHAC-USA that include
the phone numbers and addresses of his homes.
55. On or about February 3, 2002, individuals broke
windows and splashed paint at the building where PQ resided.
56. In or about February, 2002, the SHAC Website
reported the vandalism that occurred at the residence of PQ.
V. THE ATTACK ON W. CORP.
57. In or about July, 2001, the SHAC Website listed W.
Corp. as a Market Maker of the Week, thereby targeting W. Corp.
for direct action.
58. On or about July 11, 2001, in a matter of hours
over 2 million e-mails were sent through W. Corp.Â’s computer.
This barrage of e-mails compromised the computer server and
caused damage to W. Corp.Â’s operations.
59. On or about September 10, 2002, W. Corp. received
a letter from SHAC, signed by Angela Jackson, an alias utilized
by defendant LAUREN GAZZOLA, requesting written confirmation that
W. Corp had ceased as a Market Maker of HLS stock stating: “If
we can obtain a statement, on company letterhead confirming that
[W. Corp.] no longer acts as a Market Maker for LSRI, and has no
intention of doing so in the future, we are happy to contact our
supporters and confirm that the campaign against [W. Corp] has
ended. This should bring a prompt end to the phone calls and
faxes and e-mails your company is receiving.”
VI. THE ATTACK ON BNY
60. From at least as early as in or about April, 2001,
the SHAC Website listed BNY as a target.
61. On or about May 13, 2001, defendants KEVIN
KJONAAS, LAUREN GAZZOLA, ANDREW STEPANIAN, DARIUS FULLMER and
others appeared at the doorstep of BNY employee TPÂ’s home and
shouted, cursed and threatened his wife.
62. After the May 13, 2001 verbal attack upon TPÂ’s
wife, the SHAC Website reported the incident.
63. On or about July 24, 2001, the home of BR, a BNY
employee, was vandalized and his boat was damaged. According to
a SHAC press release: BR’s “Amerikkkan Flag was lowered and
discarded like the trash it is, and replaced with the only flag
that matters, a pirate flag!”
VI. THE ATTACK ON C. CORP.
64. On or about May 29, 2003, the SHAC Website
announced that C. Corp., a global pharmaceutical company, was a
target of the SHAC campaign. Referring to C. Corp. employees,
the SHAC Website stated: “We know where you are, we know what
you look like we know where you socialize and best of all we know
where you live!”
65. On or about August 18, 2003, the SHAC Website
announced that animal rights activists had demonstrated at the
home of KS, a C. Corp. employee, and that they had “swarmed her
neighborhood, taking over her street…”
66. On or about August 21, 2003, the SHAC Website
announced that animal rights activists had demonstrated at the
home of KS and spent time “littered throughout her surrounding
neighborhood, talking out on the bullhorn…”
67. On or about September 16, 2003, the SHAC Website
announced that animal rights activists had demonstrated at the
home of KS and stated “at about 12 am we bid him a fond goodnight
and left questioning: So K****, did you tuck your family into bed
and explain why we were out there, or were you too cowardly to be
home? Either way, we win. Because WE ALWAYS WIN.”
68. On or about October 15, 2003, the SHAC Website
posted the following:
K**** “the killer” S****** of C. Corp.’s
toxicology department has been infiltrated.
She is a longtime treasurer of the Cascade
Orienteering Club…. The ClubÂ’s Officers;
board members; co-ordinators, and members
have all been written polite e-mails
explaining the nature of K**** S******* dirty
business. They were then asked for personal
or embarrassing information on K****. When
no one responded in days they were bombarded
with e-mails depicting K**** as the coldblooded
killer she is. The ClubÂ’s e-mail
list had also been infiltrated, and now
nothing is secret.
The web posting went on to list information about the club and
its members including their names, home addresses, home telephone
numbers and personal e-mail addresses.
69. On or about the late evening of May 15, 2003, and
the early morning hours of May 16, 2003, animal rights activists
protested at the home of AH with bullhorns.
70. On or about May 16, 2003, the SHAC Website posted
a report of the demonstration at the home of AH stating:
Very early this morning C[. Corp.] employees
and board members woke up to the sounds of
activists screaming though bullhorns,
personal alarms blaring in the front yards
and to find flyers with their pictures, names
and addresses posted up around their
neighborhoods exposing the sick animal
killing scum that they are.
71. On or about August 18, 2003, individuals went to
the home of AH and, pounded on her front door, rang her doorbell
and shouting “open the door you fucking bitch.”
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section
433.
COUNT TWO
1. Paragraphs 1, 6, 9-14, 16-18, 36-39, 42, 49-51 of
Count One of this Indictment are repeated and realleged as if
fully set forth herein.
2. From at least as early as March, 2001 through in or
about December, 2002 at Somerset, in the District of New Jersey,
and elsewhere, the defendants
STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL CRUELTY, USA, INC.
KEVIN KJONAAS, a/k/a “Kevin Jonas,”
a/k/a “Steve Shore,” a/k/a “Jim Fareer,”
LAUREN GAZZOLA, a/k/a “Angela Jackson,”
a/k/a “Danielle Matthews,” and
JACOB CONROY
did knowingly and wilfully combine, conspire and agree with one
another and with others to use a facility in interstate and
foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct that placed a
person, a member of the immediate family of that person, or a
spouse or intimate partner of that person, in reasonable fear of
death or serious bodily injury to any of the persons described
above, with the intent to place a person in another State in
reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to,
that person or any of the persons described above, contrary to
Title 18, United States Code, Section 2261A(2).
3. Defendants and others committed overt acts in
furtherance of the conspiracy as set forth in paragraphs 1, 6, 9-
14, 16-18, 36-39, 42 and 49-51 of Count One of this Indictment in
order to effect its object.
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section
371.
COUNT THREE
1. Paragraphs 1, 6, 9-14 and 36-39 of Count One of
this Indictment are repeated and realleged as if fully set forth
herein.
2. From at least as early as March 9, 2002 through in
or about December, 2002 at Somerset, in the District of New
Jersey, and elsewhere, the defendants
STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL CRUELTY, USA, INC.
KEVIN KJONAAS, a/k/a “Kevin Jonas,”
a/k/a “Steve Shore,” a/k/a “Jim Fareer,”
LAUREN GAZZOLA, a/k/a “Angela Jackson,”
a/k/a “Danielle Matthews,” and
JACOB CONROY
did knowingly and with the intent to place a person in another
State in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to
that person, specifically SD, or a member of the immediate family
of SD, or a spouse or intimate partner of SD, use a facility in
interstate and foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct
that placed SD in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious
bodily injury to, SD or a member of the immediate family of SD,
or a spouse or intimate partner of SD.
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections
2261A and 2.
COUNT FOUR
1. Paragraphs 1, 6, 9-14 and 42 of Count One of this
Indictment are repeated and realleged as if fully set forth
herein.
2. From at least as early as August 3, 2002 through in
or about December, 2002 at Somerset, in the District of New
Jersey, and elsewhere, the defendants
STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL CRUELTY, USA, INC.
KEVIN KJONAAS, a/k/a “Kevin Jonas,”
a/k/a “Steve Shore,” a/k/a “Jim Fareer,”
LAUREN GAZZOLA, a/k/a “Angela Jackson,”
a/k/a “Danielle Matthews,” and
JACOB CONROY
did knowingly and with the intent to place a person in another
State in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to
that person, specifically MH, or a member of the immediate family
of MH, or a spouse or intimate partner of MH, use a facility in
interstate and foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct
that placed MH in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious
bodily injury to, MH or a member of the immediate family of MH,
or a spouse or intimate partner of MH.
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections
2261A and 2.
COUNT FIVE
1. Paragraphs 1, 6, 9-14 and 49-51 of Count One of
this Indictment are repeated and realleged as if fully set forth
herein.
2. From at least as early as April 28, 2002 through in
or about December, 2002 at Somerset, in the District of New
Jersey, and elsewhere, the defendants
STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL CRUELTY, USA, INC.
KEVIN KJONAAS, a/k/a “Kevin Jonas,”
a/k/a “Steve Shore,”a/k/a “Jim Fareer,”
LAUREN GAZZOLA, a/k/a “Angela Jackson,”
a/k/a “Danielle Matthews,” and
JACOB CONROY
did knowingly and with the intent to place a person in another
State in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to
that person, specifically RH, or a member of the immediate family
of RH, or a spouse or intimate partner of RH, use a facility in
interstate and foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct
that placed RH in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious
bodily injury to, RH or a member of the immediate family of RH,
or a spouse or intimate partner of RH.
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections
2261A and 2.
A TRUE BILL
FOREPERSON
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CHRISTOPHER J. CHRISTIE
United States Attorney