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PHOENIX – The man FOX News first declared America’s toughest sheriff may soon be posing for his own mug shot. Capitol Hill sources confirm the FBI is investigating multiple allegations against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, charges that are said to include murder of suspects in custody, civil rights violations, blackmail, graft and use of his office to settle political vendettas.
The last of America’s true old style political bosses is nearly eighty and if just half the allegations become elements of a federal grand jury indictment, Sheriff Joe as his supporters call him, would doubtless spend several years awaiting trial in federal detention. Bail is seldom granted in cases where the suspect has purportedly salted away millions of dollars in off shore accounts and is a flight risk.
Sources close to the federal task force report the break came when senior deputies hoping to avoid long prison terms flipped on their boss and began cooperating with the Justice department.
For more than a decade the small portly neoconservative populist exercised an iron fist over a vast statewide political machine, But the findings of a federal grand jury may change all that and leave Arizona’s republican political infrastructure in free fall.
The beginning of the end actually began when scandal forced Alberto Gonzales resignation as Attorney General, Not wanting to be remembered as being quite so corrupt as his predecessor, Michael Mukasey reportedly permitted dozens of complaints against the sheriff gathering dust to be reviewed, they discovered even by George Bush’s standards the behavior of a county sheriff who speaks in the third person and titles himself America’s sheriff was too much to ignore any longer.
Public documentation alone details a man whose political machine has had its hand in murder, rape, kidnapping, graft, blackmail and every possible criminal activity. The scope of the crimes is said to have spurred even jaded republican political hacks at justice to order the FBI into action.
When Barack Obama’s people took over at justice the investigation already underway was assigned even more resources and people, revelations surfaced that confirmed the sheriff had allowed individuals with known ties to violent white supremacist and separatist groups to join his armed and badge toting volunteer special deputy ranks. Videos of the sheriff’s relationship with radical separatists can be seen at this link
The sheriff’s poll ratings which had been in the upper 90% for more than a decade began to slip after the 2006 midterms when his handpicked congressional delegation was booted out of congress. The election of democrats to Arizona’s Gubernatorial and Attorney General’s office opened the flood gates and local Mayors and council members all over the State who had cow towed to the sheriffs machine for years began speaking against him.
The Sheriff responded by announcing his office had been conducting a super double top secret investigations against democrats and was close to arresting the A.G who held his own press conference to chuckle and declare the State would no longer be accepting calls or cases from the Sheriff of Maricopa county.
Claiming disrespect for the office of sheriff would not stand on his watch, he began to deploy fully armed swat teams to raid city halls around Arizona claiming they were harboring terrorists and illegal aliens posing as janitors, called press conferences to warn his followers he had proof positive “they” were also engaged in a conspiracy with drug cartels from Mexico to assasinate the personage of the sheriff,
As the feds begin to draw the butterfly net around the sheriff of Maricopa county his press conferences have become film noir, he rants at the vast left wing political conspiracy arrayed against him shouts that the federal agents in the audience who have already identified themselves are actually posing as reporters or cab drivers and street sweepers, stalking his every move and out to get him. Some suspect the sheriffs more bizarre than usual behavior of late suggest he may be planning an insanity defense or will attempt to have doctors certify he is afflicted with Alzheimer’s and unfit to stand trial.
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Good god, here's hoping with all my fingers crossed.
This is one inhuman monster that needs a taste of the
cold hard realities of existence behind bars for life.
Arpaio is a dictatorial criminal who's actions are
sanctioned only by the criminals who voted him into office.
This monster is clearly a racist hate monger who will stop at
nothing to push the limits of his perceived powers against
any and all who oppose his fragile ego.
'America's Dumbest Criminal' Because he accuses others of crimes
he himself is guilty of as a way to blow smoke and create a
camouflage for the weak minds that support him.
All he's really doing is projecting himself and his behaviors
onto other people. This is very clear and his attempt at using
these counter accusations as a smoke screen prove that this
guy is mentally unbalanced and dangerous.
MCSO - Mentally Challenged Sheriff's Office
For the sake of what is good this evil must be eradicated in
the name of justice and libert
Finally the "Examiner" and David Kelly got it right!!
Really got old, reading your Pro Arpaio biased, articles before.
The "Truth" shall prevail!!
Arpaios, reign of terror will finally come to an end! Hallelujah!!
Regards,
Truth08
"rumored"
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Rumors are not news; this is nothing more than a liberal wish…
This will be the beginning of the end. Thank you...This guy needs to go to jail for life.
Is there any other substantiation for this information. I am hopeful, but when the Phoenix New Times is not carrying it, I don't want to jump for joy just yet.
The Sheriff is an official of the county, within the state. The Federal government has no constitutional authority to charge him with anything. It’s time we remember that the founders gave us a federalist system of balanced power in which the federal was created by the states, sharing co-equal power. The states are NOT subjects of the federal, but rather protectors of We the people, the ultimate sovereigns. It’s time to start ignoring the unconstitutional power grabs of the federal government.
Thomas Jefferson --- “The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government;. . . . they constituted a general government for special purposes [and] delegated to that government certain definite powers and whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. To this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states f
Today I honor my Son in-Law in Iraq from Fort Bragg, my Cousins son that just returned from Iraq to Fort Bragg, my baby Brother Mike in the U.S. Navy, and all of the Brave men and Women that both have and now serve our Great Nation!! I also honor all of our Allied Forces that bravely stand with us!!
They are Fighting for our Freedom and Rights, the very ones that TYRANT's like Arpio want to take away for their own Racism & Greed!
God Bless America!
And God bless ALL GOOD Mankind!
Right will Prevail!
Obama 2012!
Sincerely:
David Nichols
Gilbert Az.
Arpaio is a criminal overflowing with wickedness. Hatred for his criminal activity and the love of truth and justice is not limited to Democrats, but real, genuine conservatives despise this nonsense also. A sheriff is indeed the highest law in the land, but wearing a badge does not excuse murder, rape, and graft. It will be a real blessing for the United States when this man is behind bars where he belongs.
Ron Paul 2012!
Glen Bradley
No one is Above the Law.
If Arpio wants to do a CRIME SUPRESSION SWEEP, he should start with himself!
T: Justice For ALL!
Clarity, your post is excellent and incisive.
22popuser, an elected sheriff is NOT above the law, notwithstanding your spouting of idealogy. There is obviously an ongoing FBI investigation of Arpaio that has been reported by several news sources, just as there was of ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested by the FBI and taken into FBI custody in December 2008. Are you advocating that the FBI be dismantled because it does not conform to your ideology?
i give arpaio 1 week in jail. 187
You people are hysterical. At least you gave me a good laugh to start my day. Wish we had Joe here in California!
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