"A co-founder of the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere has been ordered to pay $191,000 in restitution to two Sonoma County poultry farms for protests he and other DxE supporters staged several years ago, prosecutors said Tuesday. The order against Wayne Hsiung was announced as another DxE organizer, Zoe Rosenberg, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in a separate protest case. Rosenberg was arrested in November 2023 on the same day Hsiung was sentenced in Santa Rosa."
"Hsiung and DxE staged a protest at Sunrise Farms on May 29, 2018. Prosecutors said participants refused to leave the property, entered structures and removed chickens. Though simple trespass appears minor in the grand scheme, in this particular case the fervor and singular focus with which the defendant and his co-participants targeted Sunrise Farms to promote their personal agenda, the trespass had far more impact than that which might be implied by the crime of trespass standing alone, Passaglia wrote."
Wayne Hsiung, a co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere, was ordered to pay $191,000 in restitution to two Sonoma County poultry farms after a jury convicted him of two misdemeanor trespass counts and one felony count of conspiracy to commit trespass. Judge Laura Passaglia allocated $87,195 to Sunrise Farms and $104,509 to Weber Family Farms, owned by brothers Mike and Scott Weber. Prosecutors said protesters refused to leave property, entered structures and removed chickens, causing financial harm beyond animal theft. Zoe Rosenberg, another DxE organizer, faces separate sentencing after a November 2023 arrest.
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