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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