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The Venezuelan migrant influencer who has flashed wads of $100 bills and bragged about milking US welfare is now moaning that he can't afford an attorney.
Leonel Moreno, 27, was arrested on March 29 in Columbus, Ohio, after months of taunting Americans on TikTok.
Despite bragging about all the money has made from government welfare programs and begging on the streets, he is suddenly short of cash and can't come up with the money to pay for an attorney, according to The New York Post.
Moreno is currently being held in federal custody at the Geauga County Jail in Ohio after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) found him and arrested him for violating his terms of probation, which he was put on illegally entering the United States.
The immigration judge overseeing Moreno's case has been pushing back hearings while Moreno scrambles to find the cash to pay for legal representation.
Leonel Moreno, 27 (pictured), is moaning that he can't afford an attorney, despite flashing wads of $100 bills and bragging about squatting and begging
He first sparked chaos when he started sharing tips on how to invade vacant homes and live off of the US government on his TikTok account
Posts showed him waving fistfuls of cash claiming to have benefitted from government programs
Moreno was arrested on March 29, about two years after him and his wife Vernonia Torres (pictured) illegally crossed into the US through the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas in April, 2022
'He's having financial difficulties finding an attorney for his case,' an ICE source told The Post.
Moreno, who gave squatting tips on TikTok, released a 30-minute-long video on from prison in which he whined about how he is being treated in prison and claimed he is 'respectful to people'.
'I came here to the United States because of persecution in my country...But they're doing the same thing to me in the United States-- persecuting me,' Moreno said.
'It's all misinformation in the media about me. They're defaming me, They're misrepresenting me in the news... I am a good father, a good son, a good person, humble, respectful to people who respect me.'
As he spoke in Spanish and hid his face from the camera, Moreno added: 'I miss my entire life - I miss my freedom!'
Moreno's long-awaited arrest came almost two years after he and his wife, Vernonia Torres,
