Joe Exotic Resentenced; Gets 21 Years In Jail

A federal judge resentenced “Tiger King” Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison on Friday, over a case involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin.

Joe Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — had allegedly tried to hire two different men to kill Carole Baskin.

Baskin who also attended the proceedings with her husband, Howard Baskin said, “He continues to harbor intense feelings of ill will toward me,” she told the judge.

Baskin said even with Joe in prison, she has continued to receive “vile, abusive and threatening communications” over the last two years.

She told the judge she believes Joe poses an even more serious threat to her now that he has a larger group of supporters.

Joe’s attorneys told the judge their client is suffering from stage-one prostate cancer, along with a disease that compromises his immune system, making him particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.

Joe previously said that he planned to delay treatment until after his resentencing. Federal officials have said he will need up to eight weeks of radiation treatments and would be unable to travel during the treatments.

Prosecutors also told the judge Friday that Joe received a disciplinary write-up in September for being possession of a contraband cellphone and unauthorized headphones that was not included in his pre-sentencing report.

Prosecutors said Joe offered $10,000 to an undercover FBI agent to kill Baskin during a recorded December 2017 meeting.

In the recording, he told the agent, “Just like follow her into a mall parking lot and just cap her and drive off.”

Joe who maintains his innocence, also was convicted of killing five tigers, selling tiger cubs and falsifying wildlife records when he worked as a Zoo keeper.