With latest payout, former Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cost taxpayers $100M
With latest payout, former Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cost taxpayers $100M
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abc15 ^
PHOENIX — Nearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers are covering one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman’s headline-grabbing tactics inspired. Officials
in Maricopa County agreed last week to pay $3.1 million to cover a settlement with a restaurant owner who alleged Arpaio defamed him and violated his rights when raiding his businesses. The payout takes to $100 million the attorney fees, settlements and other costs the county has paid from lawsuits stemming from Arpaio’s six terms. Arpaio says jail operators are often the...
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Contempt hearing sought against Joe Arpaio’s successor
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AP via MSN ^
| 11 Mar 2021 | JACQUES BILLEAUD
PHOENIX (AP) — Paul Penzone took office four years ago as metro Phoenix's new sheriff promising to turn the page on the problems created by his headline-grabbing predecessor, Joe Arpaio — ousted in part after he was found in contempt of court for disobeying a judge's order in a racial profiling case.
Now Penzone faces calls for a contempt hearing in the same profiling lawsuit, this time for not complying with a court-ordered overhaul of his agency's much-criticized internal affairs operation, which has a backlog of 2,000 cases. Each one takes 500 days on average to complete... ...the sheriff’s office...
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Joe Arpaio loses bid for his old position as sheriff
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The Hill via MSN ^
| 8/8/20 | Tal Axelrod
Former Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio narrowly lost his campaign to get his old job back Friday, ending a nearly successful comeback for one of the state's most polarizing figures. Arpaio,
who held the position from 1993-2017, lost the GOP primary for the job to 40-year department veteran and Arpaio aide Jerry Sheridan by just over 6,000 votes when the Maricopa County Elections Department called the race. The two contenders were separated just 1 percent, 37-36.
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Joe Arpaio loses libel lawsuit against CNN
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Washington Times ^
| October 31, 2019 | Stephen Dinan
A federal judge on Thursday tossed the libel lawsuit Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona, had filed against CNN, Rolling Stone and the Huffington Post, ruling that even though they made errors, the news organizations didn’t do it with malice. Judge
Royce C. Lamberth did deliver a spanking to Huffington Post and Rolling Stone, saying they published stories on Mr. Arpaio that were “not substantially true.” CNN’s piece, while making an error, was on the whole accurate, the judge found. Mr. Arpaio sued after the news organizations called him a felon or, in the case of Huffington...
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'I plan on winning': At 87, Joe Arpaio is running for sheriff again
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aol ^
| Sep 16th 2019 | ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
Joe Arpaio would like you to know that Joe Arpaio is not going away. That
is precisely what some in Arizona fear. “Joe Arpaio's decision to run for sheriff is a disaster for Republicans,” wrote an Arizona Republic columnist. Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican, gave money to Penzone, a Democrat. ETC. Hit piece on Arpaio by aol.com.
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Joe Arpaio announces run for seventh term as Maricopa County sheriff
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Fox News ^
| 8/26/2019 | Louis Casiano
Joe Arpaio announced Sunday that he will seek a seventh term as the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, promising to reopen his infamous tent city jail and bring back controversial jail policies that drew the ire of civil rights advocates and made him a darling of tough-on-crime conservatives. Arpaio,
who called himself "America's toughest sheriff" during his 24-year run, said he'll challenge incumbent Paul Penzone in the 2020 sheriff's race. Penzone, a Democrat, unseated Arpaio in 2016 for the job. “On this day, August 25, 2019, after consultation and approval from my wife of 61 years, Ava, I have decided...
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Joe Arpaio to run for Maricopa County sheriff in 2020
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The Hill ^
| 8/25/19 | Owen Daugherty
Joe Arpaio announced Sunday night that he plans to run for sheriff of Maricopa County in 2020 after losing his most recent reelection bid. Arpaio
served as the county’s sheriff for 1993 until 2016, with his 24 years in office making him the longest-serving sheriff in the county’s history. "The last four years have proven to be a time of lost opportunities to continue the kind of tough policing this county needs," Arpaio wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. "Once back in office, I will use my position to restore pride to our law enforcement ranks, not only here,...
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Supreme Court rejects ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio challenge to criminal prosecutor appointment
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Washington Examiner ^
| April 29, 2019 | Melissa Quinn
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio lost his bid at the Supreme Court on Monday challenging a lower court’s appointment of a special prosecutor in his criminal case. Arpaio
earned a national reputation for harsh conditions in the Arizona prisons he ran for a quarter century, before losing his 2016 reelection bid. Arpaio was found in criminal contempt of court in 2017 for not following a judge’s orders to stop traffic patrols that targeted illegal immigrants. President Trump then pardoned the former Maricopa County sheriff. Arpaio, 86, is now attempting to vacate his conviction. At issue in the Supreme Court...
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Arpaio sues CNN for defamation after network wrongly calls him a 'felon'
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The Washington Times ^
| december 11, 2018 | Stephen Dinan
Former Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio sued CNN on Monday, arguing the cable outlet inaccurately labeled him a “felon” in a broadcast and has made no efforts to correct its mistake. Mr.
Arpaio was found guilty of a misdemeanor contempt of court last year, not a felony — and was quickly pardoned by President Trump. He has asked the courts to expunge his original misdemeanor conviction, in a case that’s still pending. In his lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., Mr. Arpaio also sued Huffington Post and Rolling Stone, which he says also made inaccurate statements about his...
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Man in Trump video was jailed, released under Joe Arpaio [barf; AP lies]
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Associated Press ^
| November 2, 2018 | Jacques Billeaud
A political ad from President Donald Trump that shows a Mexican immigrant bragging about killing police officers has put the spotlight back on noted immigration hard-liner Joe Arpaio, who detained and released the man in the video years ago. The
former six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix says he’s being unfairly blamed for releasing the immigrant depicted in the video that has stoked immigration anxieties in the days leading up to the midterm elections. The ad centers on Luis Bracamontes, who was convicted of murder in the 2014 shooting deaths of two sheriff’s deputies in California while he was in the...
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Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio sues New York Times for libel
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CBS "News" ^
| October 17, 2018 | By HOLLY ROSENKRANTZ
Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who lost his U.S. Senate bid in August, filed a lawsuit against The New York Times and one of its opinion writers over an opinion piece that he says contains ''several false, defamatory factual assertions" that he claims damage his chances of running for office again. Arpaio,
86, is seeking $147.5 million in damages, as well as attorney fees. The suit, filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that New York Times writer Michelle Cottle purposely made malicious statements that would negatively affect a bid for the late Sen. John...
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Joe Arpaio's long goodbye: Redemption or 'kamikaze' mission?
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lowellsun.com ^
| 8/25/18
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. (AP) -- It was five days before ballots will be counted in his bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, and former Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio had no idea what he was doing. The
final days of a campaign are usually frantic, with candidates' every moment scheduled to ensure they meet as many voters as possible. But Arpaio had nothing planned Thursday until a 4:30 p.m. meeting. "I ought to go to a Mexican restaurant and see how they treat me," Arpaio, 86, said as he sat in his strip mall office. So he and his...
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Arpaio seen as spoiler in Senate race
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One News Now ^
| Tuesday, August 14, 2018 | Chad Groening
Joe Arpaio should drop out of a U.S. Senate race to allow a conservative candidate a better shot at the nomination, says an immigration watchdog. August
28 is drawing closer. That is the day Arizona Republicans vote in their primary to pick a nominee to fill the seat being vacated by Jeff Flake. At the moment, Rep. Martha McSally is leading tea party favorite Kelli Ward (pictured below) by a RealClearPolitics average of eight points. But that is in large part due to the continued presence of the well-known former sheriff, who is splitting the conservative vote with Ward as...
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Joe Arpaio says he was duped by Sacha Baron Cohen
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The Hill ^
| 07/12/18 | Max Greenwood
Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio admitted that he was tricked into giving an interview to Sacha Baron Cohen, becoming the latest political figure to acknowledge becoming part of the comedian's upcoming project. Cohen
was in disguise as a Finnish comedian during the October 2017 interview, Arpaio recalled in an interview with Breitbart News. "I felt uncomfortable with some of the words they were using but I had to live through it. I am not the type of guy who gets up and walks out," he told Breitbart. "I never walked out in thousands of interviews. I just take it." He...
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Agency: Court can’t appoint prosecutor against Arpaio
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AP ^
| 01 Jul 2018 | JACQUES BILLEAUD
PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says an appeals court overstepped its bounds when it ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor to pursue an appeal involving a pardon of retired Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The appointment was previously ordered by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.{snip}
The Justice Department said in its appellate brief that “the government does not abdicate the prosecutorial function when it agrees with a defendant on a legal question.” Arpaio’s attorneys argued that appointing a special prosecutor “raises serious questions about whether the court is actively participating in the prosecution...."
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Poll: McSally holds 14-point lead in Arizona GOP Senate primary (thanks, Joe Arpaio!)
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thehill.com ^
| 6/19/18 | Lisa Hagen
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) surged into first place with a commanding 14-point lead in Arizona’s closely watched GOP Senate primary, according to a new poll. A
poll conducted by Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) has McSally ahead with a little over 39 percent of the vote, followed by former state Sen. Kelli Ward at 24.5 percent and former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio trailing far behind at nearly 14 percent. About 22 percent of voters remain undecided. This is a big shift since OHPI’s last poll from April, which had Ward in first place and leading McSally by 9 points...
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..Pardon Dinesh D'Souza,... Joe Arpaio, But Pardon Me Mr. President Does Jerry DeLemus Get His...
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Nextrush Free ^
| 6/1/2018 | Nextrush/Self
"Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today. He
was treated very unfairly by our government" President Donald J. Trump-Twitter 5/31/2018 President Trump's announcement of a pardon for Dinesh D'Souza, prosecuted and persecuted by the Obama Justice Department, brings me back to yesterday's post about Jerry DeLemus and the other two defendants in the Bunkerville Standoff case who remain in jail even though there was a mistrial of key defendants in the case based on the rigging of evidence by the federal government. It reminded me also of the pardon of Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County, Arizona...
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Mike Pence Has A Fever And The Only Prescription Is More … Joe Arpaio
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Hot Air ^
| May 2nd 2018 | ALLAHPUNDIT
Lotta agita over this on both sides of political media today, I think because Pence is still held to a slightly higher standard than Trump is. He
spent most of his career as a dogmatic conservative and even endorsed Ted Cruz (verrrry reluctantly) over Trump before the Indiana primary in 2016. He gets the same benefit of the doubt from the politerati that Kellyanne Conway does: He and she are old hands in D.C. and therefore they’re supposed to “know better.” Trump calling a guy a champion of the rule of law who once referred to his own prison as...
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Pence in Arizona hails Arpaio as ‘champion’ of ‘rule of law’
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The Hill ^
| 5/2/18 | Jaqueline Thomsen
Vice President Pence praised former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of contempt of court, as a “tireless champion of … the rule of law” during an event in Arizona on Tuesday. Pence said at the tax event that he was “honored” by the former sheriff’s attendance, and called Arpaio
a “great friend of this president and tireless champion of strong borders and the rule of law,” to cheers from the crowd.
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9th Circuit appoints special prosecutor against Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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The Washington Times ^
| April 18, 2018 | Alex Swoyer
Dissenting judge on panel worries ruling could foster ‘inappropriate… political attacks’ on presidencyA federal appeals court said this week it will appoint a lawyer to argue that former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s contempt of court conviction should remain on his record despite President Trump’s pardon. The
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that since the federal Justice Department is supporting both the pardon and Mr. Arpaio’s request to have his conviction stricken, someone else needs to argue the other side. Mr. Arpaio argues that the pardon came before he had a chance to appeal his conviction, and even before...
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