Attorney Francisco Hernandez's law office claimed in a damning 147-page court filing that Joe Exotic, 59,  used Netflix money for drugs Joe, legally named Joseph Maldonado-Passage, had directed Hernandez to make 'cloaked payments for drug transactions in the prison' Hernandez found out in September 2021 after Maldonado-Passage got caught with a burner phone and admitted to him what he was using the money forInsiders said the star ran a drug scam inside the prison by sending cloaked payments to criminals, who would then smuggle the drugs into the facilities It is unclear how much Maldonado-Passage was made for the hit Netflix series
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