Tom Perna, the public face of the custody business at Bank of New York, was among the executives to receive death threats from a London-based animals rights fanatic, according to a report in The Times of London today. The report says that in May last year the BNY executive vice president received an e-mail filled with obscene language and threats of both death and sexual assault from Robert Moaby, a 32-year-old unemployed man from King’s Cross in north London. Moaby yesterday appeared at a court hearing to face four counts of issuing death threats and seventeen counts of making indecent pictures of children, which were discovered when police raided his home. Moaby singled out Perna on the grounds BNY funded Huntingdon Life Sciences, which had become the focus of a concerted campaign by animal rights activists who objected to the fact the company carries out experiments on animals. In fact, the animal rights activist was confused. BNY did not fund Huntingdon Life Sciences: the bank merely administered its ADR programme. Moaby was arrested in June last year after the FBI tipped off Scotland Yard about the e-mail to Perna, who was forced to hire off-duty police officers to protect himself and his family.
BNY's Perna At Centre of London Death Threat Case
Tom Perna, the public face of the custody business at Bank of New York, was among the executives to receive death threats from a London based animals rights fanatic, according to a report in The Times of London today. The