Arizona County Settles 2 Lawsuits Vs. Sheriff

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

PHOENIX December 21, 2013 (AP)
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press

Arizona's most populous county agreed Friday to pay more than $7 million to settle lawsuits by a former Maricopa County official and two newspaper executives accusing Sheriff Joe Arpaio of abuse of power.

In the first suit, former Supervisor Don Stapley agreed to accept $3.5 million to drop his case accusing Arpaio, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and others of pursuing trumped-up criminal cases against him.

A separate $3.75 million settlement was reached with executives of the Phoenix New Times, who sued Arpaio's office after they were arrested in 2007 for publishing information about a secret grand jury subpoena demanding information on its stories and online readers.

Stapley's settlement brings closure to a string of lawsuits filed by numerous other high-ranking county officials and judges who claimed Arpaio and Thomas wrongfully targeted them in corruption investigations between 2008 and 2010.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/arizona-county-settle-lawsuits-sheriff-21294070

[Archae]

1. How much have those two cost Maricopa county, anyway?

$40 million?
$50 million?

More?

Face it, even after Arpaio dies, the corruption he has set into place will continue.

[another_liberal]

4. But what have they have given the World . . .

Such a wealth of priceless right wing bullshit.

[Brigid]

2. When are the taxpayers in Maricopa County . . .

Going to get sick of shelling out money related to Crazy Sheriff Joe's malfeasance?

[alp227]

3. Arizona Republic article:

Maricopa County supervisors settle lawsuits filed by ‘New Times’ founders, Stapley

[okaawhatever]

5. This makes it sound rather petty compared to what Sheriff Joe was doing. He went after anyone who

could hurt him or reveal the truth about what he was doing. A lot of the heads of the civil oversight boards, judges, prosecutors, the district attorney and journalists. He was pure evil about it too. Due to his "offense is the best defense" strategy he will probably never be held accountable for all the money in the budget he blew and won't answer for.