Joe Exotic, the "Tiger King" star whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is trying to claw his way into the 2024 presidential race, even though he's currently in prison on multiple convictions.
In a recently resurfaced 2021 interview, Carole Baskin references a purported Homeland Security document indicating Don Lewis was alive and well in Costa Rica, but the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating Lewis' 1997 disappearance, say they've heard nothing to that effect.
The Big Cat Public Safety Act, for which Carol Baskin advocated, will ban individuals from owning big cats, such as lions and tigers, and restrict close contact between spectators and the animals.
Following a year-long stint in a prison medical facility in North Carolina to receive treatment for prostate cancer, Joseph Maldonado-Passage was transferred to a medium-security facility, which he claims has some serious issues.
Joe Exotic's defense attorney had a heated debate with appeal judges over the reality star's recent resentencing for his conviction of murder-for-hire charges.
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.
