Beege Welborn

Jesse Watters had his crew check out this fellow a little bit, and he's seventy years old!

Holy smokes.

And what a scumbag.

This guy owned a pharmaceutical testing lab. In 2010 he went bankrupt, locked the doors and left all the puppies and monkeys he was testing inside to die. https://t.co/LcXNAgzCvy

— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) April 30, 2025

UPDATE: 'I didn't do nuthin''  Yeah, dude - that's the problem.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar is denying responsibility for a 2010 incident in which more than 100 beagles and monkeys used for lab testing were reportedly abandoned after his companies were placed in receivership.

A July 2010 article from USA TODAY that was circulating on social media Thursday said caretakers had to climb fences at the Oxford, N.J.-based AniClin Preclinical Services research facility in order to get food and water to the dogs, which were later put up for adoption.

In addition to 118 dogs, many of which had not yet been used for testing, animal groups rescued 55 monkeys from the facility, according to media reports from 2010.

Thanedar confirmed Thursday he was the 100% owner and chairman of the board of AniClin, which was part of the Azopharma group of companies owned by Thanedar that were placed in receivership by Bank of America and liquidated in 2010 to settle debts of $24 million.

Thanedar, who said he was not involved in the day-to-day operation of AniClin, said he warned the bank about the company's live animals and ongoing drug research for customers and asked that his people be allowed to continue to run the company. But the bank refused and locked him out, he said.