Hello,
I'm writing a college paper that will be focusing on PETA (People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals). I've heard that the organization
isn't exactly the innocent organization that it appears to be. I've
heard roomers that they have had dealings with some very shady
(criminal) people, and that they use only a small portion of their
funds to actually help animals. I need at least four separate sources.
Thank you.

Dear Pmamac, 

In the section "Criticism of PETA", Wikipedia lists 20 different
sources (each in the footnotes 23-43) expressing critique on the
organisation or its practices.

This includes:
- support of violent/violence and terrorist grooups
- mass euthanasia in PETA shelters
- Alleged targeting of vulnerable groups (also see, in another section
on the same article, about their controversial campaigns)

Criticism of PETA
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals#Criticism_of_PETA>

Here you can see many sites critical of pETA: 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals#Sites_critical_of_PETA>

I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it

This might be of interest to you:

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200203%5CCUL20020308a.html

There was an episode of the Showtime series "Penn & Teller: Bulls--t!"
that dealt with P.E.T.A.  You can see a bit about the episode at
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=peta and it should be
available on DVD too (I think it was part of the second season...)

Here's the "Penn & Teller: Bulls--t!" page on P.E.T.A.:
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=peta

Here's the whole referenced segment at PutFile
http://media.putfile.com/petaBS
Wow.

What you have to understand is that the folks at PETA are a bunch on nut-jobs.

of not on.  sorry.