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An exotic wildlife preserve owner who gained notoriety on the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” plead guilty Monday to animal trafficking and money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

Bhagavan “Doc” Antle oversaw the sale or purchase of cheetah cubs, lion cubs, tigers and a juvenile chimpanzee that were all protected as endangered species, according to a Justice Department release. Officials said the 63-year-old man featured in a documentary miniseries about the tiger trade tried to hide animal payments as “donations” to his nonprofit organization.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't he the guy with the sex cult-like sanctuary? If so he's probably got a lot more to hide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's the one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's his son who was uploading "adorable" animal clips to various social media sites. They'd get thousands of people to upvote/like/favorite them and you'd maybe get a handful of people in the comments mentioning it's Doc's son. Highly likely he was following in the footsteps of his father and most people were oblivious because aw so cute.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mid 2020 was weird we were willing to give anyone a pass if they entertained us for a few hours.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone gave him a pass. Everyone involved in this were sketchy as fuck but this guy didn't have anything directly illegal to pin on him.

The real pass was early 2000 when he appeared on talkshows and stuff. I always assumed that the guys doing it were from conservation focused and reputable zoos like Steve Irvin but a lot of them were just these weirdos.

[–] profoundninja 4 points 1 year ago

This guy was the sketchiest from my view. Dude was straight grooming girls to be his sex and work slaves.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's been my experience my entire life.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And once again, its show that the only descent person on that docu-drama was the one the public hated most.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, the libertarian kid who witnessed the shooting was the most sympathetic person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's probably who they mean but iirc even she abused people's eagerness to "help out" to get unpaid labour out of them or something like that. I remember the labour situation at her place being strange.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called volunteer work and its pretty common (and legal) for non-profits and NGOs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might remember the show better than me but I think the issue was them making money out of that volunteer work and how weird and seemingly abusive they were towards those volunteers. That's the feeling I got out of it and the news that has come out since.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "documentary" was incredibly biased in favor of the crack head and against the lady who rescue the tigers.

Big Cat Rescue is a top rated charity

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/593330495

https://www.guidestar.org/profile/59-3330495

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wasn't it their volunteers who talked about their situation? Been a while since I saw it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

How pathetic that the DOJ needs Netflix to find the criminals.