In the trial of Joseph Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic, a man, Allen Glover, testified under oath that Joe Exotic gave him $3,000 to cut the head off Carole Baskin the well-known founder, owner and manager of the equally well-known Big Cat Rescue in Florida. It’s extraordinary.
Glover said he had no intention of following through on the ‘contract’. He just took the money.
Joe Exotic is being tried for arranging the killing of Carole Baskin. I am not sure of the charges. They should include attempted murder.
Exotic claims that he was set up.
Carole Baskin was unharmed.
To raise the $3,000 Exotic sold a liger cub! Ligers are lion-tiger hybrids. He bred them at his zoo, the largest in the world I believe at one time. I am not sure it still exists. Exotic has a terrible reputation as a private zoo owner.
In court the jurors were shown a video of Exotic shooting a blow up Carole doll in the head. He hated her obviously.
P.S. I support Carole Baskin. I think she is an amazing woman. Because of her unremitting stand against the abuse of big cats as pets and domestic cat hybrids she has made enemies. She has many fans too and I am one of them.
Story: US News.
Earlier post from Sept 2018:
Private zoo owner allegedly tried to hire somebody to murder Carole Baskin CEO of Big Cat Rescue
Don’t you think that taking an animal from an owner it has bonded to is abuse, too? And Carole Baskin supports that. She’s just a loud agitator making money (while guilt-tripping a lot of suckers to do the unpleasant work for free).
Yes, he is as you describe him. He had the biggest private zoo in America at one time but he is obviously a nasty individual.
This jerk is a pile excrement,he has slaughtered his own exotics to make room for more and I hope he winds up in the poor house and the animals still in his possession I wish were confiscated and sent to sanctuaries