HSUS Fraud Investigation

It’s beginning to look like “karma” is going to make its acquaintance with the Humane Society of the United States. I am a firm believer in the saying “what goes around comes around” and it appears the HSUS has been “going around” the boundaries set by its nonprofit status under IRS code for a very long time. Looks like it’s about to catch up with them in the form of a fraud investigation.  With a yearly income of roughly one hundred million, (its top execs pull in a quarter of a million yearly), and nearly five million of that spent on political lobbying, an amount which does not include the annual salaries paid to over two dozen state directors who continually lobby legislatures, federal lobbyists on their payroll, and the expense of countless lawsuits against the USDA and other federal agencies, the HSUS should find it quite difficult to claim they are still coming in financially under allotted lobbying regulations for non-profits. It will definitely prove to be an interesting case to follow over the next several month as the HSUS could very well find themselves caught between “Uncle Sam” and their donors who believed they were funding the “four legged” animal variety.