On Going saga of the Acker case

I would like to add to the on-going saga of Fred Acker, Public Enemy # 1 in the world of the unwanted canines east of the Mississippi. He buys them, he steals them, and he has people all over the east coast providing him with contraband canines. He has people within the Connecticut Criminal Judicial System who have smoothed his way through this system, by ways that should be considers criminal. His contraband costs him  anywhere from $50.00 to $65.00 per dog which he sells for $395.00 per dog, which is considered, under his definition, a “donation” to his 501C-3  “nonprofit, nontaxable income”, and to unsatisfied  purchasers of his product (dogs), “To F’n Bad, your donations are non-refundable”. Between 2010 and 2011, Acker made between $350k and $380,000.00 which was not taxed according IRS records.

The following is from the Anderson Independent Mail, Anderson, South Carolina, and dated July 25, 2010. Greg Smith, Anderson County’s Environmental Services Director, who runs the Anderson County Animal Shelter, says that Fred Acker comes to Anderson County from Connecticut, about three or four times a year and takes around 30 dogs each trip. So Acker is taking between 90 and 120 dogs a year.

When those, let’s call them 100 dogs, come to Connecticut, Acker then “places them” for $400.00 per dog. His cost is $65.00 per dog or $6,500.00 Acker’s net profit is $33,500.00

In April of 2010, Anderson County shelter employees brought 118 dogs to a “mega-adoption” event sponsored by Fred Acker, in South Carolina, among a group of 360 dogs that had been promoted for adoption by Fred Acker. Almost all the dogs were “placed” for $325.00 per dog. The gross profit was $117,000.00, of which Anderson County made a net profit of $10,000.00 after expenses, and Acker made a net profit of $107,000.00. Nice work if you can get it.

Although it is 2014, the good people of Anderson need to take a closer look at the people who are conducting their Town and County’s business. As for us folks in Fairfield County, we are trying to put this “low life mf’r” out of business and in jail where he belongs and should have been many years ago if the Connecticut State Animal Control Office had been doing it’s  sworn duty.

Fred Acker has been at this scam for over 25 years. I cannot believe he is so smart and our Connecticut State Officials in the Animal Control Division are either so naïve, so in-attentive or at worst, so inept in dealing with Acker’s criminal acts of animal cruelty. I certainly hope that justice will be done for the sake of the Bethlehem 63. These are 63 dogs that were seized by the Bethlehem Animal Control Officer 15 months ago and are still being held as “evidence” at a number of municipal shelters here in Connecticut. They were seized when Acker was arrested and charged with 63 counts of animal cruelty. “FREE THE BETHLEHEM 63”, AND MAY JUSTICE PREVAIL FOR THESE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF ONE MANS GREED.   Google Fred Acker and his corporation SPCA of Ct. which has no relationship with the legitimate ASPCA found in New York City and you will get a good idea how a top shelf con man/hustler can make hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit by exploiting hundreds if not thousands of not only homeless, helpless animals but the hundreds if not thousands  of people who in feeling sorry for these animals, are ripe for Fred’s “sales pitch” that he is “saving them from being killed by the big bad animal control officers”. As P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute”.  “Follow The Money”.