Word: iannucci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charged with practicing veterinary medicine without a license was Edward L. Iannucci, 45, listed as an assistant in research pathology in Yale's personnel directory, actually the man in charge of keeping and handling dogs for medical researchers. The accusation was that on moving dogs to Yale, he had given them injections of barbiturates to knock them out. Nub of the state's case was that Iannucci (who once ran something that he called the Junior Animal Shelter in Hamden, just outside New Haven) had bought animals from dog wardens in adjacent towns for $2 or $3 each...
...primary suppliers in this neat racket were the dog wardens in surrounding towns. Warrants were out against eight of them, with more expected. Wardens get a uniform $4 fee for each stray dog they destroy. Instead of killing the animals, say the police, the wardens sold them to Iannucci or Ceccarelli, reported them destroyed, and collected their fees from the towns-hence the charge of fraud by a public officer...
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