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5. A Phony Murder Plot Against Arpaio Cost Taxpayers $1.1 Million

OCTOBER 28, 2008 | 4:05PM
By John Dickerson

... In 2004, victim James Saville’s family sued Arpaio for $10 million, after Saville was found not guilty of attempting to kill the sheriff. The county recently settled with Saville for an undisclosed amount. It only had to pay the above amount out of public coffers; its insurance policy covered the rest ...

In 1999, Arpaio's staff rigged the entire fake assassination plot – just so he could get his mug on TV ...

In 2004, a jury found Saville innocent of all charges. Not only that, but it ruled that Arpaio’s minions helped buy the bomb parts themselves and “entrapped” Saville in a TV-ready murder plot ...

“Jurors listened in disbelief as testimony showed it was the sheriff’s money that purchased the bomb parts, and an undercover officer who drove Saville around to buy the parts,” Bommersbach wrote ...

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