A former independent candidate for Oklahoma governor was indicted for allegedly trying to hire two people to kill a Florida woman, The Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Friday.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, 55, who is also known as “Joe Exotic,” was charged by a federal grand jury this week on two counts of hiring a person to commit murder.

Maldonado-Passage allegedly gave an unnamed person $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to South Carolina and then to Florida to carry out the murder of “Jane Doe” in November 2017, according to a DOJ statement.

Jane Doe was not physically harmed.

The second person Maldonado-Passage allegedly asked to kill the woman put him in contact with an undercover FBI agent.

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