Joe Exotic’s father died from complications related to COVID-19, the legal team of the star Tiger King asking for forgiveness to allow him to attend the funeral.
According to TMZ, the funeral of Joe’s father, Francis Schreibvogel, will take place on Saturday in Oklahoma, with the participation of the 57-year-old reality star, “desperate”.
Joe’s legal team – led by private investigator Eric Love – will fly to Washington DC on Wednesday, January 6, for a “high-level” meeting on their pardon petition, according to TMZ on Thursday.
RIP: Joe Exotic’s father dies due to complications related to COVID-19, the legal team of the Tiger King star pushing for forgiveness to allow him to attend the funeral
It is said that the team has an alternative plan – if the request for presidential pardon will be rejected.
They will go to a judge and ask for a day permit to grant Joe – his real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage – temporary release so he can attend his father’s funeral.
Maldonado-Passage is currently serving a 22-year sentence for plotting to kill 59-year-old big cat rights activist Carole Baskin.
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Tiger King’s star: According to TMZ, the funeral of Joe’s father, Francis Schreibvogel, will take place on Saturday in Oklahoma, attended by the 57-year-old reality star, “desperate”
TMZ last week claimed that Love knows how to defeat the ego of the 45th American president, as on that day the House of Representatives will vote for the ratification of Joe Biden as the next president, while Trump, 74 years, plan a rally.
According to those inside, there is a rumor that the commander-in-chief could forgive more people on January 6 to serve as a distraction, so that the vote does not receive normal attention.
This comes just one week after Exotic filed court documents rejecting the pardon process, after learning that his request had been received by the president.
Netflix star Tiger King sued the U.S. Department of Justice last week for rejecting his official pardon application, saying it was invalid because his petition was not submitted directly to Trump.
Much missed: If the pardon application fails, they will go to a judge and ask for a day permit to grant Joe – real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage – temporary release so he can attend his father’s funeral. (above Francis with his wife Shirley on the show)
He withdrew his complaint after learning that Trump had received his petition, according to a TMZ article.
Lawyers for Maldonado-Passage, in their six-page complaint, accused the interim lawyer, Pardon Rosalind Sargent-Burns, of not submitting the formal request, while claiming that she was obliged to do so.
The complaint also named Donald Trump Jr., 42, a supporter.
“Many people came out and publicly expressed their disagreement with Joe Exotic’s conviction and subsequent sentence. Among them are members of the president’s own family. Donald Trump Junior was a lawyer for Joe Exotic to be pardoned ‘, it is shown in the complaint, according to the New York Post.
Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year prison sentence for plotting to kill 59-year-old big cat rights activist Carole Baskin.
Feeling of reality: Maldonado-Passage is currently serving a 22-year sentence for plotting to kill big cat rights activist Carole Baskin, 59 – as seen in August 2013
He was also convicted in 2019 of eight counts of violating the Lacey Act for falsifying wildlife records and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act.
Maldonado-Passage contacted reality star Kim Kardashian, 40, for help reaching Trump.
In September, he wrote a letter to the president pleading for his early release from prison, while his representatives spent about $ 10,000 at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC, in an attempt to help his cause.
Earlier this year, Trump said he would consider issuing a pardon for Maldonado-Passage after his son Donald Trump Jr. brought his case.
“I’ll take a look,” he told reporters in April.
Outgoing: TMZ claims that the legal team knows how to hit the ego of the 45th US president, because on that day the House of Representatives will vote for the ratification of Joe Biden as the next president, while Trump, aged 74 years old, planning a rally
Trump last Tuesday issued a series of pardons and commissions for former members of Congress convicted of corruption, two people accused in the Russian investigation that overshadowed his presidency and four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad , which left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead.
Supporters of former Blackwater Worldwide contractors lobbied for pardons, claiming that the men had been excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution that they said had been affected. All four were serving long prison sentences.
The Blackwater company was founded by Erik Prince, an ally of Trump and the brother of the secretary of education, Betsy DeVos. He has since been renamed.
Netflix star: Netflix documentary Tiger King aired in March amid the coronavirus pandemic and became one of the most watched shows on the streaming service