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01-11-2021, 08:45 AM
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
October 30, 2021
PHOENIX (AP) — Nearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers have covered one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman’s headline-grabbing tactics inspired — and the overall legal tab has hit US$100 million.
Officials in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, agreed last week to pay US$3.1 million to cover the county’s portion of a settlement with a restaurant owner who alleged Arpaio defamed him and violated his rights when raiding his businesses.
The payout boosted the cost stemming from the Republican sheriff’s six terms to US$100 million for attorney fees, settlements and other costs the county has paid from lawsuits over things such as jail deaths, failed investigations of the sheriff’s political enemies and immigration raids of businesses.
That doesn’t include the separate US$178 million and counting taxpayers have shelled out in a 2007 racial profiling case stemming from Arpaio’s signature traffic patrols targeting immigrants
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Michael Manning, an attorney who won settlements over deaths in Arpaio’s jails and on behalf of county employees investigated by the sheriff, said it was shameful that voters kept re-electing Arpaio as his legal bills piled up.
“They just didn’t care as long as they got the entertainment value,” Manning said. “And it just went on and on.”
Eventually, voter tolerance for Arpaio and his tactics waned. His crushing 2016 defeat to a Democratic challenger has been attributed to his escalating troubles in court, taxpayer-funded legal bills and his penchant for self-promotion.
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Some of the most high-profile payouts were US$8.25 million over the asphyxiation death of a man who struggled with Arpaio’s jail officers; US$8.7 million for officials and judges who claimed Arpaio launched trumped-up investigations against them; US$3.5 million in a lawsuit alleging Arpaio’s office botched the investigation into the rape of a 13-year-old girl who has developmental difficulties; and US$200,000 for a pretrial jail detainee who was restrained before and after giving birth at a hospital.
Better to read full report at: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-b...28759eb44a
October 30, 2021
PHOENIX (AP) — Nearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers have covered one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman’s headline-grabbing tactics inspired — and the overall legal tab has hit US$100 million.
Officials in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, agreed last week to pay US$3.1 million to cover the county’s portion of a settlement with a restaurant owner who alleged Arpaio defamed him and violated his rights when raiding his businesses.
The payout boosted the cost stemming from the Republican sheriff’s six terms to US$100 million for attorney fees, settlements and other costs the county has paid from lawsuits over things such as jail deaths, failed investigations of the sheriff’s political enemies and immigration raids of businesses.
That doesn’t include the separate US$178 million and counting taxpayers have shelled out in a 2007 racial profiling case stemming from Arpaio’s signature traffic patrols targeting immigrants
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Michael Manning, an attorney who won settlements over deaths in Arpaio’s jails and on behalf of county employees investigated by the sheriff, said it was shameful that voters kept re-electing Arpaio as his legal bills piled up.
“They just didn’t care as long as they got the entertainment value,” Manning said. “And it just went on and on.”
Eventually, voter tolerance for Arpaio and his tactics waned. His crushing 2016 defeat to a Democratic challenger has been attributed to his escalating troubles in court, taxpayer-funded legal bills and his penchant for self-promotion.
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Some of the most high-profile payouts were US$8.25 million over the asphyxiation death of a man who struggled with Arpaio’s jail officers; US$8.7 million for officials and judges who claimed Arpaio launched trumped-up investigations against them; US$3.5 million in a lawsuit alleging Arpaio’s office botched the investigation into the rape of a 13-year-old girl who has developmental difficulties; and US$200,000 for a pretrial jail detainee who was restrained before and after giving birth at a hospital.
Better to read full report at: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-b...28759eb44a
