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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2013, record photo, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, besides known arsenic Joe Exotic, is seen astatine the zoo helium utilized to tally successful Wynnewood, Okla. The erstwhile zookeeper has been transferred to a aesculapian installation successful North Carolina for national inmates aft a crab diagnosis, according to his attorney. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

BUTNER, N.C. – The erstwhile Oklahoma zookeeper known arsenic “Tiger King” Joe Exotic, a salient fig successful a Netflix documentary series, has been transferred to a aesculapian installation successful North Carolina for national inmates aft a crab diagnosis, according to his attorney.

Joe Exotic, whose existent sanction is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was flown connected a level to beryllium transferred from a national aesculapian halfway successful Fort Worth, Texas, to a national aesculapian halfway successful Butner, North Carolina, precocious Tuesday oregon aboriginal Wednesday, defence lawyer John Phillips said successful a statement. Phillips, who tweeted his connection connected Saturday, said Maldonado-Passage primitively was scheduled to beryllium transferred aboriginal this month.

Phillips said Maldonado-Passage told him that helium had been diagnosed with prostate crab and was getting aesculapian attraction and tests “for a big of issues.” Phillips said situation aesculapian attraction “isn't the champion and justness is slow.”

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“It's a contention of beingness and liberty nary 1 wants immoderate portion of,” helium added.

In July, a national appeals tribunal ruled that Maldonado-Passage should get a shorter situation condemnation for his relation successful a murder-for-hire crippled and violating national wildlife laws.

He was sentenced successful January 2020 to 22 years successful national situation aft being convicted of trying to prosecute 2 antithetic men to termination Florida carnal rights activistic Carole Baskin. A three-judge sheet of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals successful Denver recovered that the proceedings tribunal wrongly treated those 2 convictions separately successful calculating his situation word nether sentencing guidelines.

The appeals tribunal sheet said his advisory sentencing scope should beryllium betwixt 17 1/2 years and conscionable nether 22 years alternatively than betwixt conscionable nether 22 years and 27 years successful prison, arsenic the proceedings tribunal calculated.

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Maldonado-Passage and his blond mullet were featured successful the Netflix documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”

Meanwhile, Baskin, of Tampa’s Big Cat Rescue sanctuary, mislaid an effort to halt Netflix and a accumulation institution from utilizing antecedently recorded video of her and her hubby successful the “Tiger King” sequel, which began airing Nov. 17.

A national magistrate justice issued a proposal Friday denying the Baskins’ bid to artifact usage of the footage arsenic an impermissible anterior restraint nether the First Amendment.

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