Last week,  we reported that Bill Cosby had been freed from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned due to a promise a prosecutor made in 2005 that he would not be charged for the crime.

Now, it’s being reported that Cosby’s lawyers are exploring a countersuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for what they believe was a “wrongful incarceration” after the disgraced comedian served two years of a three- to-10-year sentence.

“We are looking at all legal angles for those things right now,” Cosby’s spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt said while appearing on “The Domenick Nati Show” on Friday. “We are looking at what recourse, what legal recourse we can take against the state of Pennsylvania.”

“Isn’t he owed money for every day that he’s in jail or am I wrong?” Nati asked Wyatt, to which he responded, “He’s owed money. It’s a lot of owed money.”

“Our attorneys are filing the paperwork now,” he added. “[Cosby] is owed a lot of money.”

The host then pressed Wyatt to give a “ballpark” estimate of how much he believes Cosby is owed for his incarceration.

“A couple hundred grand,” he responded. “A couple hundred thousand.”

Nati said that he is “really torn” on the matter and does “think [Cosby] is guilty” especially considering the fact that dozens of women have accused the 83 year-old performer of drugging and raping them. He said that hearing that from “50 plus women is a lot” and for “so many people to get together and come up with a lie” is “hard for anyone to understand.”

Wyatt fired back by calling the investigation into Cosby “the greatest ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ extortion scheme led by Gloria Allred and [daughter] Lisa Bloom” and saying that he believes the case was “about money.”

Bloom responded by telling Wyatt to “choose your words carefully.”

“We already scored one spectacular win against Bill Cosby in our defamation litigation after another of his reps spoke recklessly,” she said in a statement to Fox News. “Shall we file another?”

Allred also released a statement saying that “any allegation of extortion is defamatory, and appears to be an attempt by Mr. Cosby’s representative to deflect attention away from the allegations by more than 60 women who have accused Mr. Cosby of victimizing them.”

Wyatt released a statement of his own in which he said, “Mr. Cosby’s Constitutional Rights were abolished by D.A. Kevin Steele and Judge O’Neill and we’re exploring possible lawsuits against Montgomery County, as well as reviewing all mechanisms to ask that their bar license be suspended permanently.”

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