PORTLAND, OREGON -- Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activists claimed responsibility for an April 10 attack on a Wachovia Securities executive in an anonymous communique received by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO), which issued a press release about the incident on April 17.   

         Wachovia is a major investor in GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical giant that is one of the largest customer of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Europe's biggest contract animal testing firm.   According to the communique, the ALF members spray-painted Wachovia Vice President Kevin Singer's SUV.

      The communique reads in part, "The Animal Liberation Front has kept it's [sic] promise by continuing it's [sic] campaign against Wachovia Securities for that company's continued financial relationship with HLS customer GlaxoSmithKline.  On the night of April 10th the ALF visited...the home of Kevin Singer, vice president of wealth management of Wachovia Securities.   Your shiny new SUV isn't too shiny any more after we left it spray-painted with slogans and paint-stripped."

      The communique also includes Singer's home address.

      In a March 10 communique, the ALF reported that it had vandalized the home and car of Wachovia Securities First Vice President Jason Bratt on March 6.   This communique also included a warning to Wachovia is disinvest from GlaxoSmithKline, as well as Bratt's home address.

      According to the April 17 NAALPO press release, Charles Schwab and Co., TD Waterhouse, Marsh Inc., and dozens of other investment, insurance, and banking firms, have stopped trading in HLS shares or doing any other business with HLS "after being targeted by activists and learning of the company's involvement with animal cruelty."

        

      

 

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