Joe Exotic is clawing for freedom and has claimed the federal government is hiding the truth about his innocence.

RadarOnline.com has obtained a bombshell August 1 court filing in which the Tiger King star, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage , begs the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for a full rehearing after losing his latest appeal.

In the newly filed motion, Joe claims the star witness in his murder-for-hire trial committed perjury and that the FBI withheld key text messages and recordings that could have cleared his name. Article continues below advertisement

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The convicted zookeeper says the government’s supposed “hitman,” Allen Glover, who was heavily featured in Netflix 's Tiger King , admitted unde

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