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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-- A Long Island town says a business that allows customers to hold, feed and now sell sloths is defying a court order to stop operating. Its owner claims he's complying with the law.

Margate Commissioner Tommy Ruzzano, while holding a giant sloth stuffed animal, called the activitsts a "bunch of hypocrites.