Carol Baskin feelings exotic, 59, received her due punishment after being sentenced to 21 years in prison for conspiring to kill her. OR tiger king star and founder of Big Cat Rescue spoke EXCLUSIVELY with hollywood life and shared his thoughts afterwards Joe, whose full legal name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was convicted in January of conspiring to kill his nemesis, 61, for hire.
“I think the punishment fits the crime because he is someone who has raised hundreds and hundreds of tigers, lions and ligers in a life of deprivation, confinement and movement in tiny cells of the same size. . it’s about time,” Carole said as she celebrated the recent passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act signed into law by the president. Joe Biden on December 20th.
Joe was arrested on September 7, 2018 for the murder-for-hire plot against Carole, the owner of the wildlife sanctuary in Tampa, Florida. The two were at odds due to Carole’s active criticism of the pet park and Joe’s cat breeding practices, and in 2011 she even landed a million dollar settlement against him in a lawsuit for trademark infringement.
Their feud finally came to a head in 2017 when Joe tried to pay off a man named Allen Glove for $3,000 to kill Carole. Joe was also arrested and charged with killing endangered tigers in his park to make room for more exotic animals.
“I am baffled that people would support the person who killed five tigers to make room for them to get close to other tigers that were more valuable to them,” the animal advocate said when asked about the #FreeJoeExotic petition that Joe is stating. promoting online. “Someone who hit two different people to kill me. What kind of people support that kind of mentality to get them back into the wild?
“Joe was just one of a handful of these animals, ‘pimp’ tiger cubs who were constantly exploiting them, so they needed to silence me any way they could. I’ve gotten multiple death threats from just about everyone you’ve seen tiger king“, He has declared. “Now that the law has been passed, I don’t think they have the same incentive to kill me as before.”
A federal jury found Joe guilty in January 2020 of two counts of hiring someone to kill Carole in Florida, eight counts of violating the Lacey Act by falsifying wildlife records, and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act. Extinction killing five tigers and selling tigers all over the world. status lines. He was initially sentenced to 22-27 years in prison in January 2020, but was sentenced again in July 2021 when a court ordered the sentence reduced to between 17.5 and 22 years.
Meanwhile, Carole is happy with the recent passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which is “the first step in saving the tiger in the wild,” she explained. “This bill does two things; it precludes the practice of allowing people to have public contact with big cats and their young. And phase out private property for big cats. So the people who have them can keep them, they just can’t buy or make more. And with puppies petting them, they can only wear them for about three months and then they have to get rid of them because they become such a risk.”
To mark this major milestone for lions, tigers and other big cats, 150 of Carole’s organization’s incredible big cat short films just premiered on two compassionate television networks, Earthstream and Jane Velez-Mitchell Unchained TV.
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Ashley Root is an author and celebrity journalist who writes for The Fashion Vibes. With a keen eye for all things celebrity, Ashley is always up-to-date on the latest gossip and trends in the world of entertainment.
