Judge gives control of Joe Exotic’s zoo to Carole Baskin

WYNNEWOOD, Okla. – A federal judge in Oklahoma has awarded possession of the zoo designed well known in Netflix’s “Tiger King” docuseries to Joe Exotic’s main rival.

In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Decide Scott Palk granted handle of the Oklahoma zoo that was earlier run by Joseph Maldonado-Passage — also regarded as Joe Exotic — to Huge Cat Rescue Corp.

The Florida team was founded by Carole Baskin, who also highlighted prominently in the strike Netflix sequence. Maldonado-Passage is now serving a 22-yr federal prison expression for killing 5 tigers and plotting to have Baskin killed.

Baskin earlier sued Maldonado-Passage for trademark and copyright infringements and gained a $1 million civil judgment towards him. Palk’s judgment Monday observed that possession of the zoo was fraudulently transferred to Maldonado-Passage’s mother in an endeavor to stay clear of paying the judgment.

The choice reported the zoo animals need to be taken off from the property in just 120 times but it does not detail what really should occur to them.

Attorneys symbolizing Huge Cat Rescue Corp. did not straight away return messages in search of remark.

Maldonado-Passage stays incarcerated in Fort Worthy of, Texas. In a handwritten letter posted Monday on Twitter, he recurring his plea for a presidential pardon.