With the keen sense of timing that comes from being an experienced showman, Joe Exotic is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, his lead prosecutor, a federal agent, a former business partner and others he blames for his arrest and conviction.
The former zookeeper filed the false imprisonment lawsuit on his own in Oklahoma City federal court on March 17, days before a Netflix documentary series made him a household name across the United States.
Now, he is seeking an attorney to represent him.
"If anyone knows a lawyer to take this case on my behalf for a percentage please message me," he wrote Wednesday on his last Facebook post from the Grady County jail. "Thank you all for your kind words and emails."
He complains he was set up by the zoo's new owner, Jeff Lowe, to get rid of him for good. He complains government witnesses lied about him. He complains that the federal wildlife agent who investigated him and an assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted him knowingly put on false testimony to get him indicted and then convicted.
His civil rights were violated because he is openly gay and because animals rights advocates were upset that he bred tigers and other big cats at his zoo in Wynnewood and allowed paying visitors to interact with their cubs, he claims.
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