Joe Exotic’s father has died as a result of the complications associated with COVID-19, with the Tiger King star’s legal team campaigning for forgiveness to attend the funeral.
According to TMZ, the funeral of Joe’s father, Francis Schreibvogel, will take place in Oklahoma on Saturday, with the 57-year-old reality star ‘desperate’ to attend.
Joe’s legal team – led by private investigator Eric Love – will fly to Washington DC on Wednesday, January 6 for a ‘high-level’ meeting regarding their forgiveness petition, according to TMZ on Thursday.
RIP: Joe Exotic’s father died of complications related to COVID-19, with the Tiger King star’s legal team seeking forgiveness so he could attend the funeral
It is said that the team has an alternative plan in place – should the plea of the presidential pardon be rejected.
They will go to a judge and ask for a day card that will give Joe – the 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 cat rights activist Carole Baskin, 59.
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Tiger King star: According to TMZ, the funeral of Joe’s father, Francis Schreibvogel, will take place in Oklahoma on Saturday, with the 57-year-old reality star ‘desperate’ to attend
Last week TMZ claims that Love knows how to soothe the 45th U.S. president’s ego, as the House of Representatives will vote on that day to ratify Joe Biden as the next president, while Trump (74) plans a rally.
According to their informants, there is a buzz that the commander-in-chief can forgive several people on January 6 to serve as a distraction so that the vote does not get the normal attention.
It comes just a week after Exotic filed court documents in which he dismissed his pardon lawsuit after learning that his request had been received by the president.
The star of the Netflix series Tiger King sued the US Department of Justice last week for rejecting his official pardon request, claiming it was not valid because his petition was not presented directly to Trump.
Very missed: should the apology fail, they will go to a judge and ask for a day card that will give 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 Trump had received his petition, according to an TMZ article.
Advocates for Maldonado Passage, in their six-page complaint, accused acting attorney Rosalind Sargent-Burns of failing to pass on the formal request, claiming she should have done so.
Donald Trump Jr. (42) was also identified as a supporter in the complaint.
‘A lot of people came forward and expressed their opinions in public with the conviction of Joe Exotic and the subsequent sentence. These include members of the president’s own family. According to the New York Post, Donald Trump Junior is ‘a proponent of pardoning Joe Exotic’.
Maldonado Passage is serving 22 years in prison for conspiracy to kill big cat rights activist Carole Baskin, 59.
Reality sensation: Maldonado-Passage is currently serving a 22-year sentence for conspiring to kill 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 has asked reality star Kim Kardashian, 40, for help reaching out to Trump.
In September, he wrote a letter to the president pleading for his early release from prison, while his representatives spent about $ 10,000 in Trump’s Washington hotel in an effort 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 the case to him.
“I’ll watch,” he told reporters in April.
On the way out: TMZ claims the legal team knows how to soothe the 45th US president’s ego, as the House of Representatives will vote on that day to ratify Joe Biden as the next president while Trump (74) plans a rally.
Trump last Tuesday issued a series of pardons and commutations in aid of former members of Congress convicted of corruption charges, two people charged in the Russian investigation that overshadowed his presidency and four former government contractors convicted of ‘ a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqis behind. civilian death.
Supporters of the former contractors at Blackwater Worldwide advocated for the pardon, arguing that the men were excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution that they said was infected. All four are serving long prison sentences.
The Blackwater firm was founded by Erik Prince, an ally of Trump and the brother of Education Minister Betsy DeVos. It has since been renamed.
Netflix star: The Netflix documentary Tiger King aired in March amid the coronavirus pandemic and becomes one of the most watched shows on the streaming service