A celeb of Netflix’s “Tiger King” was once indicted on animal trafficking and cash laundering fees on Thursday.
Antle was once featured within the first season of “Tiger King” and in addition the topic of the 2021 spin-off “Tiger King: The Document Antle Tale”:
Antle and his worker Andrew Jon Sawyer, 52, allegedly helped launder over $500,000 that “they believed to be the proceeds of an operation to smuggle unlawful immigrants around the Mexican border,” the DOJ said. He’s additionally accused of the use of bulk money receipts to shop for animals when he couldn’t use exams, and deliberate to cover the cash by means of “inflating vacationer numbers” at his Myrtle Seashore corporate.
Each Antle and Sawyer resist twenty years in jail, if convicted. Meredith Bybee, Charles Sammut and Jason Clay, who’re accused of serving to Antle site visitors animals, may just resist 5 years in jail, if convicted.
Antle additionally faces two legal counts, together with one tied to animal trafficking in Virginia. To this point, he has gained over 35 U.S. Division of Agriculture violations for animal mistreatment, The Hill reported.
“Tiger King” superstar Joe Unique, who was once additionally accused of mistreating animals, was once resentenced to 21 years in jail previous this 12 months for a murder-for-hire plot to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin.