New Brunswick judge denies Cranbury horse auction house temporary license
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 6:12 PM Updated: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 6:13 PM
By Sue Epstein/The Star-Ledger
Martin Griff/The Times of Trenton.
Some of the horses at the Camelot horse farm in Cranbury. A New Brunswick judge has denied Camelot a temporary license to run the auction house.
CRANBURY — A Cranbury horse auction house will have to take its efforts to regain its sales license to the state Department of Agriculture and an administrative law judge.
A judge in New Brunswick today refused to order the department’s Division of Animal Health to give Camelot Sales Stables Inc. a temporary license to hold horse auctions until an administrative law judge can decide if the business should have a new license issued.
The auction house’s last yearly license expired in June. The state had issues with the house’s record-keeping, issuing it temporary licenses each month until Dec. 7, when Camelot was informed it could no longer hold auctions.
The state did not renew Camelot’s sales license because of a continuing lack of documentation that the horses sold in its auctions were given the necessary health tests prior to sale, according to the deputy attorney general representing the department at today’s hearing.
But, after Camelot took the agriculture department to court, the state agreed to issue Camelot a temporary license in late December to auction 34 horses left stranded and in danger of being sent to the slaughterhouse.
Through the auction and a rescue groups, all of the horses found new homes.
Superior Court Judge Frank Ciuffani told Lawrence Wohl, Camelot’s attorney, that he saw no "irreparable harm" to his client that would allow him to order the state to issue a temporary license.
Wohl argued the issue was one of record-keeping — that his client provided the state with the necessary documents, but some may not have been in the form the state required.
For the love to God, will someone please shut this asshole down? HE MADE OVER 800K this past year selling horses that he got for $10-50 a piece at New Holland BY JACKING their prices up through the roof and paying the "I'm going to ship them to slaughter if they aren't bought...wahhh wahhh wahhh" pity card. Also I truly believe that anyone who associates them self with this scam of an "Auction house" needs to have an investigation opened up on them too. YES this includes all the horse rescues who work with him every week, along with all the people who run Camelot Horse Weekly. THIS IS A HUGE FUCKING SCAM! Take your money to New Holland and get a truly in need horse for $10. Save a life the legit way and cut giving your damn money to a scam artist.
Fingers crossed so hard!
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