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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Joe Arpaio investigates DOJ and the judge who found him guilty of racial profiling

Earlier this week it was reported that Arpaio had cost citizens of Maricopa County in Arizona $975,000, the result of another lawsuit filed against the sheriff and county. On Monday the 9th Circuit of Appeals found that Arpaio and then County Attorney Andrew Thomas had brought frivolous charges against, and otherwise harassed, County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox. Last year another former County Supervisor, Don Stapley, received a $3.5 million settlement in a similar case.To date, Arpaio has cost citizens of Maricopa County more than $44 million because of illegal, vindictive, unethical and unnecessary lawsuits and other actions that he and crony Andrew Thomas leveled against their enemies, or people they believed were enemies because they did not sanction the sheriff's police state tactics.
That's been a common Arpaio ploy: target politicians, journalists, activists and other people with whom you disagree, harass them, file charges against them, and even arrest them. Some of these victims are now fighting back, often resulting in large settlements that the county's citizens must absorb-rather than hire teachers and police, open libraries, maintain parks or staff hospitals.

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