Joe Exotic’s dad dies of COVID-19 with Tiger King star’s legal team asking for forgiveness

Joe Exotic’s father has died from complications from COVID-19, with the Tiger King star’s legal team demanding a pardon to allow him to attend the funeral.

According to TMZ, the funeral for Joe’s father, Francis Schreibvogel, will be held in Oklahoma on Saturday, with the reality star, 57, “ desperate ” to attend.

Joe’s legal team – led by private investigator Eric Love – will travel to Washington DC on Wednesday, January 6 for a “ high-level ” meeting regarding their request for forgiveness according to TMZ on Thursday.

The team would have put in place an alternative plan – if the presidential pardon request were denied.

They will go to a judge and ask for a day pass which would grant Joe – 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 big cat rights activist Carole Baskin, 59.

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Last week TMZ claimed Love knew how to stroke the ego of the 45th US president because on that day the House of Representatives will vote to ratify Joe Biden as the next president while Trump, 74, plans a rally.

According to their insiders, there is a buzz that the Commander-in-Chief may forgive multiple people on Jan.6 to serve as a distraction so that the vote does not get normal attention.

It comes just a week after Exotic filed court documents rejecting his pardon request after learning that his request had been received by the President.

Netflix star Tiger King last week sued the US Department of Justice for rejecting his official pardon request saying it was invalid because his petition was not presented directly to Trump.

He withdrew his complaint after learning that Trump had received his petition, according to a TMZ article.

Lawyers for Maldonado-Passage, in their six-page complaint, accused acting lawyer Rosalind Sargent-Burns of failing to forward the formal request while claiming she was required to do so.

The complaint also named Donald Trump Jr., 42, as a supporter.

“ Many people have come out and have publicly expressed their disagreement with Joe Exotic’s conviction and subsequent sentence. Among these are members of the president’s own family. Donald Trump Junior pleaded for Joe Exotic to be pardoned, ” according to the complaint, according to the New York Post.

Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year prison sentence for plotting to kill big cat rights activist Carole Baskin, 59.

He was also convicted in 2019 of eight counts of violating Lacey Law for tampering with wildlife records and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act.

Maldonado-Passage reached out to reality TV star Kim Kardashian, 40, for help reaching Trump.

In September, he wrote the president a letter pleading for early release from prison as his officials spent around $ 10,000 at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC, 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 take a look,” he told reporters in April.

Trump issued a series of pardons and commutations last Tuesday for former members of Congress convicted of corruption, two people indicted in the Russia probe that followed his presidency, and four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqis behind. dead civilians.

Supporters of former Blackwater Worldwide contractors had pushed for pardons, arguing that the men had been excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution they said were flawed. All four were serving long prison sentences.

The Blackwater Company was founded by Erik Prince, a Trump ally and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. It has since been renamed.