Joe Exotic fails in Presidential pardon

Tiger King star ‘Joe Exotic”s hopes of receiving a pardon from former president Donald Trump were dashed after his name was not included on the official list.

Exotic’s legal team were fighting for his release, hoping Trump would issue a pardon for him on his last day as the US president.

They were so confident Exotic would be pardoned, his legal team reportedly even had a stretch limo waiting to pick him up from the prison.

Trump issued pardons to a total of 73 convicted people, including Stephen Bannon, his former political strategist and rapper Lil Wayne.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Exotic, was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for a murder-for-hire plot and for violating wildlife laws.

Meanwhile a federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of a zoo featured in Tiger King to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs in their possession, along with the animals’ mothers, to the federal government.

Source: Nine News, ABC.