'Tiger King' Joe Exotic resentenced to 21 years in prison

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic resentenced to 21 years in prison

By JILL BLEED and SEAN MURPHY
January 28, 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge resentenced “Tiger King” Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison on Friday, reducing his punishment by just a year despite pleas from the former zookeeper for leniency as he begins treatment for early-stage cancer.

“Please don’t make me die in prison waiting for a chance to be free,” he tearfully told a federal judge who resentenced him on a murder-for-hire charge.

Joe Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — was convicted in a case involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin. Both were featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”

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Baskin said even with Maldonado-Passage in prison, she has continued to receive “vile, abusive and threatening communications” over the last two years. She told the judge she believes Maldonado-Passage poses an even more serious threat to her now that he has a larger group of supporters because of the popularity of the Netflix series.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/joe-exotic-tiger-king-sentence-murder-for-hire-812b9b2b759e8d84f2e3192766f1efec

[dchill]

1. Why give him a year LESS??

[OhZone]

2. When you try to hire hitmen to murder someone -

you pretty much lose compassion from me.

Maybe he shoulda taken more time to care about himself and his own health than try to kill someone else.

Oh well.