GUILTY OK - Former Oklahoma governor candidate indicted in murder-for-hire plot, Santa Rosa Co., 7 Sep 2018

[cybervampira]

Former Oklahoma governor candidate indicted in murder-for-hire plot

Joe Schreibvogel Maldonado-Passage, aka “Joe Exotic,”, a former independent candidate for Oklahoma governor and exotic animal zookeeper, was indicted for allegedly trying to hire two people to kill the CEO of Tampa's Big Cat Rescue, Carole Baskin.

The Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Friday, Maldonado-Passage allegedly gave an unnamed person $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to South Carolina and then to Florida to carry out the murder. The second person Maldonado-Passage allegedly asked to kill the woman put him in contact with an undercover FBI agent.


Exotic Joe is also accused of making threats against Baskin on social media, including a video he posted showing him shooting a blow up doll, dressed like Baskin, in the head. In the video he talks about how he better never see Baskin again and how he's fed up.



Grand Jury Indicts "Joe Exotic" for Murder-For-Hire

Man accused of hiring to murder Big Cat Rescue CEO arrested

Joe Exotic arrested, accused in murder-for-hire plot

The Alleged Target Of 'Joe Exotic's' Murder-For-Hire Plot Speaks Out

Records: Big Cat Rescue CEO target of murder plot

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=253768405478825

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Snip:
“I was surprised he didn't want to do it himself, but I wasn't surprised he would try and follow through,” the intended victim, Carole Baskin, told KWTV Friday.

Feds indict Oklahoma big cat breeder in murder-for-hire

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In one 2014 video, he even shot an effigy of her in the head.

“You want to know why Carole Baskin better never, ever, ever see me face to face ever, ever, ever again,” he said in the video just before firing a revolver.

"That is how sick and tired of this ... I am," he said afterward.
Joe Exotic, former Oklahoma gubernatorial candidate, indicted, accused in murder-for-hire plot

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The one-time police chief of a small North Texas town said he is planning to leave the day-to-day supervision of the GW Exotic Animal Park, which his parents founded more than a decade ago in Wynnewood.

He said the high profile he's attained since becoming an outspoken critic of those who seek to do away with laws allowing private individuals to own exotic animals has opened up “all kinds of things up for me.”

“I'm going Hollywood,” Schreibvogel said. “They made me a star.”
'Joe Exotic' ordered to pay Florida animal sanctuary $1 million

 

[meanmaryjean]

What the actual heck?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

These are some magnificent animals!
'Joe Exotic' ordered to pay Florida animal sanctuary $1 million - Article Photos
The guy is still out of his mind though.

 

[JerseyGirl]

The man known as "Joe Exotic" will be arraigned today at the federal courthouse in Oklahoma City after he was indicted on two counts of hiring a person to commit murder.

Maldonado-Passage gave an unnamed person $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to South Carolina and then to Florida to carry out the murder. He also agreed to pay thousands more after the deed was done. Maldonado-Passage then had the person travel to Dallas to get fake identification to use during the plot. The person traveled from Oklahoma to South Carolina on Nov. 26, 2017.

The second count alleges that in early July 2016 Maldonado-Passage repeatedly asked a different unnamed person to find someone to murder "Jane Doe" in exchange for money. The second person put Maldonado-Passage in contact with an undercover FBI agent, whom he met on Dec. 8, 2017, to discuss details of the murder plot.

'Joe Exotic' to be arraigned at federal courthouse in Oklahoma City

 

[zedda]

If his names lined themselves up, the defendant would become:

Joseph Allen (Joe) Schreibvogel Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic.

Even without these dire charges he is 'quite a character', it seems.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The man known as "Joe Exotic" will be arraigned today at the federal courthouse in Oklahoma City after he was indicted on two counts of hiring a person to commit murder.

Maldonado-Passage gave an unnamed person $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to South Carolina and then to Florida to carry out the murder. He also agreed to pay thousands more after the deed was done. Maldonado-Passage then had the person travel to Dallas to get fake identification to use during the plot. The person traveled from Oklahoma to South Carolina on Nov. 26, 2017.

The second count alleges that in early July 2016 Maldonado-Passage repeatedly asked a different unnamed person to find someone to murder "Jane Doe" in exchange for money. The second person put Maldonado-Passage in contact with an undercover FBI agent, whom he met on Dec. 8, 2017, to discuss details of the murder plot.

'Joe Exotic' to be arraigned at federal courthouse in Oklahoma City

Thanks so much for the update, Jersey.

 

[zedda]

His illustrious past includes having garnered 664 votes in coming third in the Libertarian primary election for governor on June 26, 2018, 18.7% of the vote.

Joe Exotic - Ballotpedia

 

[JerseyGirl]

Court records show that the trial is set to go on Nov. 7.

Joe Exotic to remain in federal custody while he awaits trial in murder-for-hire plot

 

[Brubeck]

o/t Quiz:

What current major party candidate for Oklahoma governor's niece was jailed for over eleven years as a result of the copycat "Natural Born Killers" crime spree in the South in 1995?

 

[Indy Anna]

o/t Quiz:

What current major party candidate for Oklahoma governor's niece was jailed for over eleven years as a result of the copycat "Natural Born Killers" crime spree in the South in 1995?

Drew Edmondson (Dem). His niece is Sarah Edmondson. A little about her here:

Natural Born Killers copycat crimes - Wikipedia

Hard to believe she served less than 12 years of a 32 yr. sentence.

 

[Brubeck]

Drew Edmondson (Dem). His niece is Sarah Edmondson. A little about her here:

Natural Born Killers copycat crimes - Wikipedia

Hard to believe she served less than 12 years of a 32 yr. sentence.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Southern justice is frequently hard to believe as anything except an oxymoron.

Next up:

Which best-selling author encouraged a lawsuit against Oliver Stone for actions committed by the same NBK-influenced pair, after one shot dead a friend of his?

 

[Indy Anna]

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Southern justice is frequently hard to believe as anything except an oxymoron.

Next up:

Which best-selling author encouraged a lawsuit against Oliver Stone for actions committed by the same NBK-influenced pair, after one shot dead a friend of his?

John Grisham.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Jury to hear first testimony in Joe Exotic murder-for-hire trial

 

[cybervampira]

Trial begins in ex-Oklahoma zookeeper's murder-for-hire... | Daily Mail Online

• Joseph Maldonado-Passage, 55, made his first appearance in federal court on Monday
• He was arrested in Oklahoma last September for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill Carole Baskin, 57, twice in 2017
• Baskin has been reporting Maldonado to the authorities for animal cruelty for years
• In 2013, he changed the name of his business to emulate that of her animal sanctuary and she sued him
• She was awarded a $1million judgement that Maldonado complained about afterwards
• In videos for his failed 2016 presidential campaign, he referred to the judgement against him by 'some b**** in Florida'
• He now faces 20 years imprisonment and a $500,000 fine if convicted

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[PommyMommy]

“I knew cats were getting shot,” Murder-for-hire trial against ‘Joe Exotic’ begins
Seven witnesses were called to the stand Monday in the trial against former Oklahoma zoo owner accused in a federal murder-for-hire plot.

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Federal prosecutors allege Maldonado-Passage of hiring a person in November 2017 to murder "Jane Doe", who has since been identified as Carole Baskin, in Florida. In a second count, the indictment alleges that beginning in July 2016, Maldonado-Passage repeatedly asked a different unnamed person to find someone to murder Jane Doe in exchange for money. The second person put Maldonado-Passage in contact with an undercover FBI agent.

At the heart of the case is revenge, prosecutors said Monday.

Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue sued Maldonado-Passage (then known as Joseph Schreibvogel) in 2011 for trademark infringement. A judge ruled in Baskin's favor and ordered Schreibvogel to pay Big Cat Rescue nearly $1 million.

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Among former employees who testified Monday was Erik Cowie.

Cowie worked at the Garvin County park for five years, working closely with the tigers. Though Cowie did not witness it, he testified in court that he heard gunshots in October 2017 when prosecutors allege Maldonado-Passage shot five tigers.

"I knew what was going on. I'm [not] stupid," Cowie told reporters Monday. "I knew cats were getting shot."

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"Cage space. We needed three cages. He wiped out five cats," he said. "He came up a 4-10 in his hand and I knew he just shot Cuddles. I heard it, and he comes up the hill and goes…[expletive], Erik. If I knew it was going to be this easy to just walk right up the cage, I was just going to kill them all."

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[PommyMommy]

https://www.readfrontier.org/storie...murder-for-hire-plot-shooting-sedated-tigers/
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Maldonado-Passage showed the zoo worker photographs of Baskin and suggested hiding in the bushes with a gun on the bike path she took to work each morning at the wildlife refuge.

The government also claims Maldonado-Passage attempted to hire a second hitman to kill Baskin who was, in fact, an undercover federal agent.

On social media, Maldonado-Passage railed against Baskin and frequently quipped about killing her. In one video, he shot a blow-up doll with a handgun in Baskin’s effigy.

At the zoo, he illegally sold federally protected animal species including lions and tigers, in part to finance paying a hitman, Brown said.

Maldonado-Passage allegedly shot and killed five healthy adult tigers at the Wynnewood Zoo to make room for more animals, according to court testimony. The zoo needed to free up cages for five circus animals the zoo was being paid $5,000 to board over the winter.

“He needed the money because Carole Baskin had ruined him financially and that is what ultimately consumed him,” Brown said.

William Earley, Maldonado-Passage’s attorney, countered that his client was only guilty of an “inability to close his mouth.”

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Another zoo worker, Dylan West, testified he was ordered to pick up the tiger carcasses using a skid steer loader and bury them in a back pasture at the zoo.

“‘Jesus, if I knew it was this easy, I’d just go ahead and blast them all, ’” Maldonado-Passage said after the killings, according to Cowie’s testimony.

The trial is expected to last about two weeks.

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[PommyMommy]

MAR 26, 2019
Joe Exotic played along with set-up attempt, attorney says
Cat breeder Joe Exotic already had been planning to leave behind the zoo he founded when new owner Jeff Lowe and a "hapless crony"of Lowe tried to set him up, his attorney told jurors Monday.

"He had had it, he was ready to go and he started unloading his inventory," assistant federal public defender Bill Earley said in an opening statement at the former gubernatorial candidate's murder-for-hire trial.

[...]

Since his arrest last September in Florida, he has complained more than once in jail calls to the media that Lowe framed him. He also has said he killed the tigers for humane reasons because they were in pain.

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Defense attorneys claim Lowe tried to sell the zoo in 2017 to Baskin for $500,000 to get her to back off. They claim Lowe then decided to get rid of Maldonado-Passage by setting him up in hopes she would drop her collection case once he was arrested.

Earley told jurors the defendant became suspicious of Lowe and crony Allen Glover and "played along" with them to see what they were up to.