Joe Exotic May Get Out Early, Thanks to Carole Baskins

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Joe Exotic is looking to get out of jail early. Help is coming from an unlikely adversary, Carole Baskin. Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado Passage is serving a 22-year sentence for the 2017 murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin and for other violations of wildlife laws. Baskin’s husband, Howard says he and his wife would help exotic get released early if he would support the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which was passed in December, and prohibits private ownership of cats. Exotic reportedly agreed. he has been in prison for a two and a half years during which he has tried to get a pardon from Trump before he left office.