“Tiger King” Star God “Doctor” Antal After accepting it, he is going to jail that he broke the federal law to buy endangered animals to keep his zoo in South Carolina.
65 -year -old Antale was sentenced to a year and one day behind bars and fined $ 55,000 on Tuesday, with almost two years convicted for smuggling foreign animals and money laundering. He had to give the government three chimpanzies and more than $ 197,000. she entered His petition In November 2023.
South Carolina said, “Doctor Antale portrayed herself as a conservationist. But in fact, he was a prominent player in illegal chimpanzee trade, and he earned more than half a million dollars through a complex web of fraud.” In a statement,
It was probably the end of legal plays, which surrounded the “Tiger King”, Netflix True Crime Documentary that closed a country closed by Kovid -19.
Star, which is exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado, Currently disorganized At the Federal Medical Center Fort Worth, the second star, by serving a 21-year federal jail sentence to try to hire two different men to kill Carroll Baskin. The foreigner, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was a collector and private zucchmen of Oklahoma, and Bascon-Cat runs the Big Cat rescue in Florida.
Antley appeared with a foreigner and basecin in the first season and was the star of the show’s third season.
Antony’s crimes were unrelated. Prosecutor Patrick Duggan said that he used the money used in a human trafficking scheme under a human trafficking scheme as he needed a large amount of cash, such as Chimpanzi, lion, tiger, cheetah and other creatures, to buy animals such as chimpanzi, lion, tiger, cheetah and other creatures, said prosecutor Patrick Duggan. These animals are illegal to sell because they are endangered, and their high prices can encourage hunters to steal them from the wild, Duggan explained.
Duggan said in court on Tuesday, “He was deliberately and illegally trading him as a black market, which runs another black market of poaching and smuggling.”
Antal’s lawyers only requested probation or imprisonment for house imprisonment, saying that their customer needs to take care of 150 foreign animals, which consumes 1,000 pounds (454 kg) meat in a day in their Martal Beach Safari, which is a zoo for 50 acres, which provides tourism and personal eats with eccentric wildlife. Website Offer The Wild Encounter Day Tours begin at $ 389 per person.
His lawyers said that many animals only respond to Antal.
Around 25 friends and family packed in a federal court in Charlston. Many people told Judge Joseph Dawson III that Antale was generous and careful. He said that he raised hundreds of dollars to fight poaching and preserve wild houses for tigers, lions and chimpanzies.
The judge was entertained. The federal guidelines called for almost two years in jail, causing the prosecutors to agree. But Dawson said although Antley broke the federal law, all the evidence pointed him to take care of animals.
Antley apologized at the end of the hearing to create problems for her life work.
“I made a mistake, I made stupid things,” Antale said, “I hope I will be able to pull it back together for everyone.”
Antal’s Martal Beach Safari was known to charge hundreds or thousands of dollars to make people pets and catch children’s animals such as lions, tigers and monkeys that they were still being fed with bottles. The customer will pay $ 200 for five minutes and a child with a child’s chimp or $ 7,000 for a sleep. Antale used to ride tourism on an elephant sometimes.
The zoo is open only by reservation.
Prosecutors said Antale sold or bought cheetahs, lions, tigers and a chimpanzee without proper paperwork for a decade. He said that he also looted more than $ 500,000 so that he could quickly get cash to buy more animals.
The prosecutors said that Antal Knows the federal law well and was able to avoid prosecution for years. He will accept a large “donation” for an animal for his protection foundation. He led a non -profit organization rare species funds registered in South Carolina. The prosecutors said that he would claim to have the animal in the same situation, which he bought, but was then taken to his Martal Beach Zoo.
The FBI was listening to Antony’s phone call with an informer as he explained that a child can easily spend $ 200,000. Private zucpers can charge hundreds of dollars for photographs with dochale young primets or other animals, but the profit window remains open for only a few years before the growing animals can no longer be handled safely.
“I had to get a monkey, but people will not take a check. They only take cash. So what do you do?” Antony said according to a transport of phone calls in court papers.
Antale will have to leave three chimpanzies purchased as part of their petition deal.
Two Antley employees have already been sentenced for their roles in their plans.
Meredith Baibi was given one year of probation for selling a chimpanzee, while Andrew “Omar” Sawyer, who said the prosecutors said that Antley Laund’s money helped, he was given two years of probation.
