Posted: 07.28.2010

Prosecutors want to garnish the wages of an
animal rights activist who freed mink from Midwestern fur farms.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker has granted their
application to garnish up to 25 percent of the wages of Peter
Daniel Young.

The order is directed at Philadelphia-based Evil Twin Booking,
which books Young to give speeches about his case.
Prosecutors say Young owes $253,000 to mink farmers. He and an
accomplice broke onto mink farms in Wisconsin, South Dakota and
Iowa in 1997 and freed the animals.

Young says he gives most of his speeches for free and has only
made ``if anything, a negligible amount'' from them.
 

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