Joe “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage of the new popular Netflix series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness has filed a $94 million lawsuit from prison against former business partner Jeff Lowe and several government agencies, according to The Blast.
According to documents acquired by The Blast, Maldonado-Passage is suing Lowe, the U.S. Federal Wildlife Service, the United States Department of Interior, as well as James Garrettson, Daniel Ashe, and Allen Glover.
Last year, a jury convicted Maldonado-Passage on 21 counts for euthanizing five tigers and hiring someone to kill his rival, Carole Baskin. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
“At 12:01 am Friday Morning, 132 countries that get Netflix most will be trapped in their own homes with nothing to do but watch the T.V. series Tiger King and the entire world will know what these people did to put me here,” Maldonado-Passage said wrote on Facebook prior to the release of the hit series. “I have been promised the Government agents wont be able to cover up the corruption they took part in,” he said, days before filing his suit.
After the filing, Exotic returned to Facebook to release a statement about the suit, stating, “This lawsuit has been filed in the name of Justice, The Trump Administration must be made aware of the Overreach, perjury, abuse of power and the failure to uphold the Oath of their position which is truth and justice for all.”
In the suit, Maldonado-Passage claims the defendants violated his civil rights, such as due process, selective enforcement, discrimination, right to post phone, false imprisonment, false arrest, perjury, and entrapment.
He is also accusing the U.S. Department of Interior of plotting to get him in trouble with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Still, he insists that he followed the laws pertaining to the federal animal welfare act.
The Tiger King believes that he was set up, claiming officials launched an investigation to “allow them to file charges to put me in jail and out of business. Therefore stealing my property and promoting an animal rights agenda,” the lawsuit explains. His theory suggests that “special agents” targeted him and knowingly accepted statements they knew were false,” allowing his witnesses to lie under oath. Miss leading (sic) a grand jury and not seeking the truth to further an animal rights agenda. False arrest, entrapment, false imprisonment, all contributing to my mother’s death,” documents obtained by The Blast reveal.
According to the lawsuit, Lowe “filed false statements to the federal agents. He was the main person in this entrapment scheme to take my zoo for free. Changed my medicine with illegal drugs, stole my animals under fraudulent reasons. Destroyed my house with all my personal property in it. Couched and encouraged the government witnesses to lie under oath.”
He also alleges that Garrettson was an informant offered a total of $100,000 to set him up as he allegedly committed crimes such as stealing people’s I.D.’s and credit cards and lying under oath.
Maldonado-Passage believes he’s entitled to over $94 million in damages, and he wants “the law to be enforced fair and equal.”
“I am the only person criminally charged while the government lets a private nonprofit group civilly sue everyone else and want re-paid for my personal property and 18 years of research lost due to this, they are miss reading the law just to further an agenda,” the lawsuit states.
“I have been illegally charged with these crimes and the Trump Administration, the United States Department of Interior, along with the Federal Wildlife service, must be held accountable for what they have done to me, my parents and my family, along with my animals. Thank you, and please share,” he added in his Facebook statement.
Maldonado-Passage will be representing himself in the lawsuit.
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