The wildlife zookeeper and trainer is expected to return to his South Carolina reserve after being released on bond. He stands accused of laundering more than half a million dollars of illegal funds.
The series of newly filed court documents “tells the story which was never told in ‘Tiger King’ or Mr. Maldonado’s criminal trial,” Joe Exotic’s lawyer John M. Phillips told Oxygen.com.
“It is time for JUSTICE. Free Joe Exotic,” an attorney for Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, wrote just hours before the hearing was scheduled to begin Friday.