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Murder for hire' plot against Tampa's Big Cat Rescue CEO leads to arrest of Oklahoma candidate
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File this under weird Florida co-mingled with libertarians...
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https://www.tampabay.com/news/-Murder-for-hire-plot-against-Tampa-s-Big-Cat-Rescue-CEO-leads-to-arrest-of-Oklahoma-candidate-for-governor_171609891
A years-long feud between an Oklahoma zookeeper and a Tampa conservationist ended with the zookeeper in handcuffs Friday after federal agents foiled his alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
Joseph "Joe Exotic" Maldonado-Passage, 55, was indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested Friday in Gulf Breeze for allegedly offering to pay two different people to murder Carole Baskin, the CEO of Tampa’s Big Cat Rescue, an animal sanctuary.
Maldonado-Passage’s arrest comes during a turbulent year for the zookeeper. In October of last year, Maldonado’s husband, Travis, died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head at Maldonado’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Two months later, Maldonado married another man, Dillon Passage, according to local media reports.
And in June, he lost his long shot bid to be governor of Oklahoma, finishing third in a three-person race for the Libertarian nomination. He ran on a platform that supported rights for abortion, the LGBTQ community and unfettered gun ownership.
Joseph "Joe Exotic" Maldonado-Passage, 55, was indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested Friday in Gulf Breeze for allegedly offering to pay two different people to murder Carole Baskin, the CEO of Tampa’s Big Cat Rescue, an animal sanctuary.
Maldonado-Passage’s arrest comes during a turbulent year for the zookeeper. In October of last year, Maldonado’s husband, Travis, died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head at Maldonado’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Two months later, Maldonado married another man, Dillon Passage, according to local media reports.
And in June, he lost his long shot bid to be governor of Oklahoma, finishing third in a three-person race for the Libertarian nomination. He ran on a platform that supported rights for abortion, the LGBTQ community and unfettered gun ownership.
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He should have stayed in OK. 
This sounds like a bad TV plot! 
