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Sign Up for Free to View July 14, 2021, 10:33 PM ET Court Orders Shorter Sentence For 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver found that the trial court wrongly treated two of Joe Exotic's convictions separately. By The Associated Press Joe Exotic Photo: Netflix A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. Joe Exotic, whose real na...

Article content The former Oklahoma zookeeper, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, has been behind bars since 2019, when he was found guilty of twice plotting to kill his big cat sanctuary rival Carole Baskin, but his lawyers have been trying to overturn the sentence, even reaching out to then-U.S. president Donald Trump in 2020 in a failed effort to receive a pardon. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic has prison sentence vacated Back to video They subsequently took the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circ...

Updated 12:24 AM ET, Thu July 15, 2021 Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, and one of his cats in the Netflix docuseries "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness." (CNN)Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as Joe Exotic on the 2020 Netflix docuseries "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness," will be resentenced, according to a court opinion filed Wednesday. The US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Maldonado-Passage's 264-month prison sentence, which was handed down last year for the murder-for-hire plots involving animal rights activist Carole Baskin as well as multiple wildlife violat...

May 12, 2021 Ross Ulbricht, founder of Bitcoin darknet marketplace Silk Road, is suing over the right to communicate with his father. Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of massive darknet marketplace Silk Road, filed a federal lawsuit last week accusing the Federal Bureau of Prisons of “substantially burdening his exercise of religion.” Ulbricht is serving consecutive life sentences at USP Tucson in Arizona on seven charges including money laundering, computer hacking and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. Silk Road ran on the Tor network, a program that routes online traffic through inte...

Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York, March 10, 2009. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Madoff, the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle that burned thousands of investors, outfoxed regulators and earned him a 150-year prison term, died behind bars early Wednesday. He was 82. Madoff’s death at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, was confirmed by his lawyer and the Bureau of Prisons. Last year, Madoff’s lawyers unsuccessfully asked a court to release him from prison during the coronavirus pandemic, saying he suffered...