In his first known interview since his arrest in June, Chris Benoit's former doctor said Wednesday he is broke and expects to file for bankruptcy soon.

The attorney for Carrollton physician Phil Astin III, who has been under house arrest, filed papers Wednesday with the U.S. District Court to have Astin declared legally indigent and asked to be removed from the case since he can't be paid.

"Since his arrest, defendant Astin has become and is currently indigent," attorney Manny Arora wrote in the court documents.

Astin, who has pleaded not guilty and estimates he's spent $50,000 toward his defense, said he will soon file bankruptcy papers.

"That's all I can do now," he said. "I don't have any funds. [The case] has disrupted every aspect of my life."

Judge Russell Vineyard could still decide that Arora should remain as Astin's attorney or he could select a public defender to take the case.

"I'm still his lawyer until the judge says otherwise," Arora said.

Astin, whose wife, Melinda, has terminal cancer, was arrested after professional wrestler Benoit killed his family and himself at their Fayettville home in June.

Astin prescribed a 10-month supply of anabolic steroids to Benoit every three to four weeks between May 2006 and May 2007, officials said.

Steroids were found in Benoit's home, and toxicology reports revealed the wrestler had roughly 10 times the normal level of testosterone in his system when he died.

The DEA raided Astin's home and several of his properties before indicting him on seven counts of overprescribing to two unnamed people. Benoit was not of those people, authorities have said.

Astin had hoped to pay for his defense by selling several parcels of property, but tax liens filed by the federal government prevented that.

Unable to work since his arrest, he's had foreclosure notices placed on the rest of his real estate interests, including his Carrollton home and office.

Astin insisted Wednesday he's done nothing wrong and is being made a scapegoat.

"I think the whole town thinks that [I'm a scapegoat]," he said. "But anytime there's murder of a kid and some high-profile person, it just gets in the news."