AC4h Rogues' Gallery

Take a good, long look at these people. They are the individuals who, collectively, are responsible for an elaborate and lucrative horse rescue scam that's been in operation for the better part of a decade now, much of it carried out over on the Internet and almost exclusively on Facebook. Another Chance 4 Horses, Inc., founded by Christy Sheidy, is run as a 501c3 nonprofit organization but it most definitely is being operated as a for-profit business, having reported $861,000 on its 2010 990 form to the IRS for last year.

Christy Sheidy, with the help of Brian Moore, a well-known kill buyer in Jonestown, PA, is procuring old, lame, sick, emaciated and generally unfit-for-sale horses to peddle weekly on Facebook at outrageously inflated prices while playing the "going to slaughter" card with the help of the above associates--and scores of gullible followers who are willingly and blindly guzzling down her tainted Kool-Aid.

It has been well documented time after time that none of these horses are given even the most basic care and are, as a matter of fact, deliberately underfed during their sad and lonely sojourn in Brian Moore's broker lot, since Christy does not like to spend her ill-gotten gains on anything but herself and her family. Furthermore, those in urgent need of veterinary care do not get it, something which always falls squarely on the shoulders (and checkbooks) of those unsuspecting adopters--despite AC4h's reporting $27,000 in vet expenses on the above 990 form--and those adopters paying the infamous 'vetting' fee upfront along with other mysterious and arcane expenses which Christy blithely claims are necessary, yet are clearly fraudulent and intended to pad her ever-expanding bottom line.

Left to right: Lady Empress, a gray TB mare who was fundraised for through AC4h, then callously abandoned at a QT/layover facility before dying; Faith, an aged grulla mare with extremely severe founder who was forced by Christy's daughter to walk on hard pavement despite being in excruciating pain. Despite Dr. Holt's recommending she be euthanized at New Holland, Christy refused as she wanted to wring her for every penny she could. She was finally put down with the help of two caring women in the Poconos. Top photo is of a mini gelding who was in reasonably good condition in the broker lot upon arrival, but who was then subsequently starved and arrived at his new home emaciated and sick.

Nearly everyone adopting a horse through AC4h has stated that they never got the health certificates and Coggins paperwork they paid for. One of my friends, who adopted fifteen horses through the organization before she finally wised up, told me point blank that out of those fifteen, she never received the health certificates she paid for and got only one Coggins.  Thirteen of those horses required urgent and immediate veterinary care upon arrival at her place. That should tell you the level of care given to the broker horses--absolutely none.

"Cadillac Jack", a young Percheron gelding who arrived at
the broker lot with a horribly infected and swollen
left hind leg, an injury that was not treated by
Christy or Brian and which cost his new owner
more than $1,000 to treat. Jack is now deceased.

And yet, time after time on their AC4h Broker Horses Facebook wall, Christy and her compadres loudly proclaim their anti-slaughter and pro-horse-welfare stance, but in reality, she couldn't be any more pro-slaughter than, say, "Slaughterhouse" Sue Wallis of Wyoming; she's that slick of an actress. For someone who's been ripping people off left and right, forward and backwards and even upside down for ten years, she's had practice, and lots of it, in crafting and perfecting her art of deception.

While the broker horses she peddles are not at risk of going to slaughter, she does help send horses to slaughter--the young, fat and healthy ones that Brian Moore is able to snap up cheaply with his profit  from the sales of those unfit-for-sale animals. Those are the ones truly in danger and which Christy's loyal disciples never see on Facebook.

Christy is so slick, as a matter of fact, that she's been able to pull the wool over a handful of well-known figures with her anti-slaughter rhetoric, including Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana), and Laura Hillenbrand, New York Times best-selling author of "Seabiscuit: An American Legend", who was emotionally blackmailed into sponsoring at least five AC4h broker horses to the tune of more than $3,000. All of those sponsored horses have since then disappeared into thin air and are unaccounted for. Too, Bernard Goldberg, who interviewed Christy for an HBO special on horse slaughter, with a special focus on Thoroughbred racehorses, got taken in by her convincing talk, as did Inside Edition.

As practiced as she is in the art of deception, she could never pull her scheme off to the extent that she has without the help of her loyal associates. Even Bernie Madoff, who bamboozled scores of wealthy and well-known individuals, had able and willing assistance from his family and business partners. The majority of Christy's associates are white collar professionals, none of who reside in Pennsylvania.

Cheryl Hanna, AC4h's publicity and marketing director, is employed as a realtor by Keyes Realty in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, while Colleen Cramblet is one of the principals of Cavanaugh, Davies, Blackman & Cramblet, a CPA firm in Monmouth, Illinois.  Lori Renee Leach, AC4h's legal counsel, who makes Alexandria, Kentucky, her home, commutes to her job at Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss in Cincinnati, a law firm that specializes in handling foreclosures for the banks.  Lisa Drahorad, AC4h's special events coordinator, lives in Marlton, New Jersey, and works for Simon & Schuster Financial. Sharon Stone makes her home in Gloucester, Virginia and is employed by Wright Sign Service.

Pamela Susan Arnold Davis, another Jersey girl (of Hackettstown) and one of AC4h's most vicious attack dogs along with Cheryl Hanna, was previously employed by Lucent Technologies but is currently unemployed, despite her spurious claim that she's currently working in an attorney's office. Sherry Osborn, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, worked or is working in the mortgage services industry as a collections consultant. Another associate, Theresa Anderson-Nason (not pictured), yet another Jersey girl, is a realtor with Weichert Realty in Taunton, NJ.

Beth Hill Ross, of Saunderstown, Rhode Island, is a very close associate of Christy's and one of the founders/operators of New England Equine Rescues (NEER). She is the owner of the Yahoo forum, Equine Rescue Scams (http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/EquineRescueScams/) which most of Christy's associates and followers use as their clubhouse and where they freely and openly attack, smear, libel, defame, harass and bully their detractors and critics. They have at least two Facebook pages on which they also brazenly carry out their attacks without fear of retribution--but the tide will surely change, and soon. Payback is a female dog, as many people are very well aware!

There is one other associate very, very few people are aware of within Christy's inner circle because she prefers to remain deep in the shadows and direct others in the group on how to exploit their detractors' vulnerabilities in order to hurt them in retaliation for speaking out against AC4h. She is Margie Stephens, a child psychologist by profession in Atlanta, Georgia and who frequents the Alex Brown forums as Margie_Morgans, an allusion to her fondness for Morgans.

Collectively, this group has a great deal of clout and are not to be underestimated by any means, as I all too belatedly found out, and am paying a very heavy price for not having come to that realization sooner. Absolutely none of these people are capable of compassion, empathy, honesty, respect for others or even the law itself; every single one of them is firmly convinced that none of the rules of society apply to them. Even Lori Leach, who was sworn to uphold the law as a member of the bar, considers herself above society's rules and ordinances and completely lacks legal ethics.

Christy and her daughter Lara brazenly mocking the camera

What each and every one of them is capable of is gratuitous cruelty, towards not just animals, but also towards their fellow human beings, of which I've experienced more than two years' worth in my battle with these moral degenerates. Remember, the majority of them are white collar professionals in their forties and fifties, with a few in their sixties (Colleen Cramblet is 61), yet they behave far worse than grade school kids with their vile and vulgar name-calling ("Skank", "Schlopp", "Fruit Loop", to reiterate a few 'choice' words; I have plenty of choice words myself for these moral degenerates but won't stoop to their level in the gutter). Heck, my two nephews, one of whom is in college, are far more civilized and respectful than these "grown-ups"!  How about this sterling commentary from Colleen Cramblet, the CPA from Monmouth, Illinois?

Well Sally "The Scag" is on here and copying information to her "so called friends" (aka the people using her to the  BIG MOUNTH for them since they are cowards and can't speak for themselves) So wonder what fake ID she is using now (maybe she is MRR... they sound sound like the same person it their level of mentality.)  Geez thought FB got rid of her for good from the last letter they got. Barb don't waste your time on a mental degenerate (aka convicted animal abuser). She's not worth the effort. She is nothing but a big FAT FAT (literally FAT) looser trying to act like she is not mentally deprived... but everyone who has had the misfortune of dealing with her knows otherwise. I'm just waiting for her to come around but all she does is threaten.. LOL... Little does she know there's some people amoungst her  just waiting tho throw her fat A$$ in jail if she does show up. And she thinks noone knows  where a bouts... Little does she know who all knows her where a bouts and keeping an eye on her. She's nothing but a FAT A$$ hiding behind her broke down computer and trying to convince everyone she's got all this high tech junk... when she ain't got a pot to **** in. ****Hi Scag. Hope you see this and maybe you need go through your friend list and see who all is watching... Ha Ha****

Remember, these are representatives of a 501c3 nonprofit organization, who are expected to conduct themselves in a professional and businesslike manner, yet they treat everyone who has the unmitigated gall (in their warped minds) to ask direct and honest questions or to question something that might seem 'shady' like lowlife criminals. People's comments are deleted and they are blocked from the AC4h Broker Horses page and other pages belonging to AC4h; if they persist, they are viciously attacked and threatened with legal action and far worse. They will up the ante by calling these people's homes and their employers, as well as family members and much worse-- all because they have a great, great deal to hide--and much to lose.

Let me ask you this: if the officers of, say, St. Jude's Research Hospital, or the SPCA, both of which are 501c3 nonprofit organizations, treated the public in this fashion, do you think that people would support them?  HELL NO! So why would anyone in their right mind throw their hard-earned money at Christy's feet when she and her associates behave like gangsta hooligans from the inner-city boroughs?? Really..... the gullibility of some people is simply astounding, the way they allow their emotions (and concerns for the innocent horses in Christy's clutches) to override their common sense when they could go directly to the auctions themselves and cut the kill buyers and Christy herself out of the action completely--and save two or three more horses for the same amount she charges for one broker horse.

If anyone's not fully convinced by what I've written thus far about these people, let me tell you about my own personal experience. I am their number one enemy and have been for over two years because I speak the truth about their illicit activities on Facebook and beyond, and they hate me for it. I don't give a damn what they think or feel, but I do give a damn about how they treat the horses in their filthy clutches and the good-hearted people who literally bankrupted themselves to bring those horses into their homes and hearts.

As far as I'm concerned, they sealed their fate a very long time ago with the man upstairs as well as with the state and federal authorities; they will get absolutely no mercy from either while still on this earth, and when their expiration date comes due. They are vicious, mean-spirited and ruthless in their determination to destroy anyone and everyone who stands in their way of making an illegal buck, and will stop at absolutely nothing, and I mean, nothing, to shut their opponents up. Last year, they recruited Angela Miller Valianos, in Cortland, Illinois, to steal my Powerbook laptop on their behalf so that she could hack into the hard drive and destroy the evidence I had gathered against them and their scam.

She did this by convincing me to go grocery shopping with her, but instead she dumped me at a homeless women's shelter in Rockford with just the clothes on my back; my Powerbook and the rest of my belongings were left behind at her house. Fortunately for me, Angela was completely unfamiliar with Macs and was unable to get at the evidence I had on the hard drive. TOO BAD for Christy and her henchwomen!

Murder? Who really knows how far they'd go beyond what they've already gone in their attempts to silence me......one of their supporters, Alisha Kimiko Haywood, bragged about having stabbed the "sh-t" out of her best friend. Others, most recently Pam Davis, who I mentioned earlier is one of Christy's most vicious attack dogs as well as a pathological liar (the only thing they all know how to do is lie, lie and lie some more through their teeth, but Pam is by far and away the worst of the entire sorry lot) expressed hope that I would die in a fall (push?) from a cliff:

From https://www.facebook.com/pages/Equine-Rescue-Scams/241900889219251?ref=ts&fref=ts&__req=j

Let's face it, these are not people you want to adopt a horse from, because they will snatch your hard-earned money out of your hands while ripping your heart out at the same time, and laughing all the way to the bank. They could care less about the aftermath they leave in their wake but as I said earlier, payback's a female dog!

Run like the wind--AWAY from them. You'll be glad you did.