Mark Longo -- who owned now-deceased Peanut the Squirrel -- has lawyered up and is demanding answers from the state of New York ... or at the very least an apology for what authorities put him through, claiming he's been targeted for harassment.
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00:00I think this was a target towards me and my family.
00:05I think they didn't understand, you know, the consequences of killing these two animals,
00:11considering Peanuts, you know, viral social media.
00:16And no point was this my social media was Peanuts.
00:19But, you know, as far as yesterday, we were supposed to vote on the peanut law,
00:23which we have aggressively been trying to support and get passed to make sure that,
00:28you know, events like Peanuts and Fred's don't ever happen again.
00:32And it was met with the most fury yesterday.
00:36It was supposed to be voted on.
00:38It was supposed to be a debate.
00:40And the chairman at the time, Deborah Glick, decided that neither one of those was going to happen yesterday.
00:48She immediately held the bill, which means it didn't get struck down, but it also didn't get approved.
00:54But it also did not allow anybody in that room to vote for it.
00:57Which is going to shock you is when I got to the state capitol, I was met with a bunch of people.
01:06And they assured me that the governor is out to destroy me and my family.
01:10And then provided evidence of emails of complaints telling me that I'm the most evil man on the planet,
01:17that I deserve to be in prison.
01:19And this has all always been about my OnlyFans.
01:23Every complaint that I've seen since day one has my OnlyFans written in the complaint.
01:29I have no idea why this.
01:31I started my OnlyFans page to help raise money for my nonprofit.
01:36That is it.
01:37I didn't go out and buy a Ferrari.
01:38I went and saved animals.
01:39I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, but I can assure you that my OnlyFans has nothing to do with the killing and murders of Peanut and Fred.
01:48So I don't know how these are correlating or being brought together.
01:53Maybe there's something that I don't know that everybody else knows.
01:56But again, we don't have any of the answers we've been asking for.
01:59And the fact that for eight months, the New York state governor has not even spoken about this, she's not extended any condolences.
02:08In fact, she's done the counter-opposite.
02:10I literally spoke to multiple people yesterday at the state capitol that claimed that Governor Kathy Hochul was trying to destroy my life.
02:20Well, Mrs. Hochul, you did a wonderful job doing that already.
02:23And you've ruined my life already.
02:25So there's nothing else I could lose at this point.
02:28I'm going to fight this tooth and nail.
02:31So if you want to talk about my OnlyFans, you want to call me a colorful person, go for it.
02:36It doesn't bother me at the slightest.
02:39It's just unfortunate that we have bigger issues in the state and in this country.
02:45And instead of making things right and holding people accountable, we're fighting this tooth and nail against some guy who lives in the middle of nowhere trying to rescue animals at his nonprofit.
02:55You know, I'm being I'm being treated like a gang member who was, you know, trafficking children and when selling drugs, either justify a 10 month investigation, 12 agents in a five hour raid on a squirrel or explain to me what they actually came for.
03:11Because I believe there's a ninety nine point nine percent chance they did not just come here for a squirrel and a raccoon.
03:18I would love to see the evidence that they have redacted.
03:23And we will because we will be taking them to court and we will find this information in discovery and we will hold everybody accountable.
03:31Right now, there there's no names that we have addressed.
03:34There's there's no evidence that we can, you know, compare to anything to compare to my story.
03:40I have nothing and it's been eight months of nothing.
03:43And that's the strange part to me is, you know, if if there was a bite, I have been on TMZ probably 20 times since this happened.
03:51And all I've been doing is bashing them.
03:55And yet, if you wanted me to stop, you would just come out with the evidence to prove that I am not telling the right story.
04:02It's it's very clear as day.
04:05I'm saying there's no bite mark.
04:07Then provide evidence of a bite mark.
04:09And in eight months, we have been provided nothing.