WHY Maricopa may not ever Recount the Vote

– below article is from 2020 election…

Hindsight IS 2020 after all.
Notice Joe Hoft’s (of the Gateway Pundit) excellent reporting here re: the AZ Audit of
the 2020 election – this article from June 2021 identifies Penzone as a Soros acolyte…
I doubt he’s ever faced ANY Convictions on these or any other charges , since he was
all over the Kari Lake steal MSM footage all week smiling like a birddog. Whadda
MESS.

ICYMI… (red text/yellow highlight are mine---TD~)

Source: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/soros-backed-sheriff-penzone-
maricopa-county-board-wouldnt-turn-router-data-az-senate-audit-now-likely-facing-
contempt-charges-another-case/

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Soros Backed Sheriff Penzone and

the Maricopa County Board Wouldn’t
Turn Over Router Data to AZ Senate
Audit – He’s Now Likely Facing
Contempt Charges In Another Case
By Joe Hoft
Published June 6, 2021 at 5:52pm
551 Comments

Text:

Soros Backed Sheriff Penzone and the

Maricopa County Board Wouldn’t Turn
Over Router Data to AZ Senate Audit – He’s
Now Likely Facing Contempt Charges In
Another Case
Soros backed Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone begged the Arizona Senate to end
their audit of the 2020 Election in Maricopa County.  Now it looks like he will soon be
charged with contempt in a different case where he has delayed providing data to the
court. 

We’ve recently reported on the Sheriff of Maricopa County who was

backed by George Soros in the 2016 election.  Sheriff Paul Penzone
was with the Maricopa Board of Supervisors when they begged the
Arizona Senate to stop the audit they were in the process of executing
in the County.
Then at one point during the audit, it was uncovered that the Maricopa
Board of Supervisors refused to provide information requested for
review.  This was unheard of in any audit.  The Board claimed that
providing router data posed a threat to the Sheriff’s office.  The router
information would have shown where items were sent and at what
time and the size of the transfer of information.
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Now in a different case Penzone is likely facing contept charges for

committing similar inactions.  A federal judge signalled on Thursday
that he will find Sheriff Paul Penzone in contempt for taking too long
to investigate charges of misconduct among officers.
In a pointed rebuke after the U.S. Department of Justice asked U.S.
District Judge G. Murray Snow in March to order a contempt hearing,
Snow said Penzone’s department is “clearly” out of compliance with
his 2016 court order to overhaul the investigation process.
“Even if I believe everything in the brief is true, which I don’t, I would
still find the sheriff in contempt,” Snow told the attorneys early in the
hearing, referring to Penzone’s response to the Justice Department’s
request for an order to show cause.
The Justice Department and the sheriff’s lawyers should focus on
negotiating remedies, not the moot merits of a potential contempt
case, Snow said.
EARLIER THIS WEEK:

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/11/09/maricopa-county-sheriff-paul-penzone-found-
contempt-same-racial-profiling-case-joe-arpaio/

Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone

found in contempt of same racial
profiling case as Joe Arpaio
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Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone

found in contempt of same racial profiling
case as Joe Arpaio
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday found the sheriff of
Maricopa County to be in civil contempt of court in the same racial
profiling case of his predecessor, Joe Arpaio. Now, the Maricopa
County Sheriff’s Office could face consequences.
Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone was found to be in contempt
for noncompliance with a court-ordered overhaul of his agency’s
much-criticized internal affairs operation, which has a backlog of
2,100 investigations, each taking an average of more than 600 days to
complete. A court order requires those investigations to be completed
within 60 to 85 days, depending on which operation within the agency
handles the case.

Arizona American Civil Liberties Union released the following

statement Wednesday afternoon:

In his order on Tuesday evening, U.S. District Judge Murray Snow

threatened yet-to-be-determined monthly fines against Maricopa
County and would put the proceeds toward hiring more internal affairs
employees. The judge wrote that Penzone “does not demonstrate that
he has taken all reasonable steps to comply with the order, especially
as the backlog has increased. The backlog, despite Sheriff Penzone’s
knowledge of it, only gets worse.”
Penzone spokeswoman Norma Gutierrez Deorta said, “The Sheriff’s
priorities this week are on the election and public safety,” referring to
the department’s role as the leading police agency securing the
Maricopa County vote tabulation center. Penzone, a Democrat who
unseated Arpaio in 2016 on promises to turn the page on his headline-
grabbing tactics and get the county’s business in order in the profiling
case, didn’t contest the allegation that he was in civil contempt and
instead agreed to focus on remedies for the backlog.
Penzone tweeted out a statement, (*See Below – dint get a lot of
play!)claiming that his goal was to bring change and that he believes
he has done that within the county. He referenced Community
Academies, the Fugitive Apprehension Team, MOSAIC drug recovery
program, and community outreach programs that serve within the
Valley and beyond. “My goal is to restore law enforcement’s
relationship with the community,” Penzone said. “We need to do this
to do our work effectively now and to build the next generation of law
enforcement officers who have the respect of the community we
serve.”
Penzone’s statement claims that the office still abides by the two court
orders that were in place when he took office. In reference to his being
held in contempt of court for the backlog of cases within the
Professional Standards Bureau, Penzone said, “Historically, my
predecessor ignored complaints about employee misconduct. In
contrast, since 2017, we have investigated and closed more than 4,400
investigations... Although I recognize that the backlog needs to be
addressed, I disagree with the Court’s ruling.” He concluded by
saying, “As a Sheriff twice-elected by the voters to repair a broken
organization, I will likely never know a day in office without court
oversight due to the actions of my predecessor. That is
unfortunate...We are the MCSO of the present, not to be confused with
the abusers of the past.”

Arpaio was found in both civil and criminal contempt for disobeying a
2011 order to stop his traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. He was
spared a possible jail sentence when his misdemeanor conviction was
pardoned by then-President Donald Trump in 2017. His defiance in
the profiling case contributed significantly to his defeat after 24 years
in office. The sheriff’s office was found in 2013 to have racially
profiled Latinos in Arpaio’s immigration patrols.
The verdict led to two court-ordered overhauls of the agency, one on
its traffic enforcement division and another on its internal affairs
operation, which under Arpaio had been criticized for biased decision-
making and shielding sheriff’s officials from accountability. The court
stripped the sheriff’s office of some of its autonomy over internal
affairs.
The attorneys who have pressed the profiling case against the sheriff’s
office had requested contempt proceedings against Penzone, saying
the length of the internal investigations has resulted in lost evidence
that makes it more likely that officer misconduct won’t be confronted.
They also said failing to investigate internal complaints on a timely
basis harms the class of Hispanics covered by the profiling lawsuit
because officers can continue interacting with them while the
investigations are pending. A court-appointed official who oversees
the sheriff’s office and has criticized Penzone for failing to fill new
internal affairs staff positions that were already budgeted by the
county has said the slowness in completing the investigations was
unacceptable for both members of the public who make complaints
and officers awaiting the findings.

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Taylor said, “They need to get their act
together and clean up the office immediately. Sheriff Penzone has had
6 years...Sheriff Joe was accused of pulling people over illegally.
People who were driving down the street were being pulled over
because of the color of their skin. Mostly people he assumed were
undocumented.”

Taylor said that he believes Penzone hasn’t shown the judge and the
community that he’s overcome the former sheriff’s legacy, despite
that he believes Penzone wants to do so. “Because of of lack of
resources, because of speed, it hasn’t been done,” Taylor said. “The
judge has the power in contempt--and it’s an extreme example--but a
judge could hold you in contempt and throw you in jail.”

In the past, Penzone has said his office made warnings several years
ago about the growing caseload, but its suggestions for confronting the
problem were rejected by court officials and opposing lawyers. In his
latest order, Snow barred the sheriff’s office from reducing staffing
levels in internal affairs while the backlog remains in effect and
threatened fines if the agency fails to fill seven vacant positions for
sworn officers or civilian investigators in internal affairs within 60
days.

The amount of the fine hasn’t yet been specified. But the judge said if
any of the posts are left vacant, the sheriff’s office will face a fine
three times the amount of an internal affairs sergeant’s annual salary
for each vacancy. The sheriff’s office is required to provide that salary
figure to the court within two weeks. Even though Arpaio’s
immigration patrols ended nine years ago – and the brash lawman was
voted out of office nearly six years ago -- taxpayers in metro Phoenix
have paid eight-figure bills every year since 2015 in the case that
challenged his crackdowns.
Taxpayers have paid $207 million in compliance and legal costs in the
profiling case over the last 14 years. Another $28 million is expected
to be spent on the case by the summer of 2023, according to county
records.
The overwhelming majority of the spending goes toward hiring
employees to help meet the court’s requirements. The court-ordered
changes also included new training for deputies on making
constitutional traffic stops, establishing a warning system to identify
problematic behavior, and equipping deputies with body-worn
cameras. Despite the money spent and efforts made to overhaul the
agency’s traffic enforcement operations, the sheriff’s office continues
to face criticism for its treatment of Hispanic drivers.
A court-ordered study of the agency’s traffic stops in 2021 concluded
that stops of Hispanic drivers were more likely to last longer and
result in searches or arrests than those of white drivers. The report
echoed some of the same conclusions from past traffic enforcement
studies aimed at identifying signs of racial bias in stops.
*READ the tweet here:
https://twitter.com/mcsoaz/status/1590479723922362370?
s=20&t=84HJmb0V8SbC_SK0cP75hw

THE BACKSTORY….

Link:

https://pebblecreekpost.com/democratic-clubs-first-zoom-meeting-welcomes-
sheriff-paul-penzone/

CLUBS & CLASSES, AUGUST 2020

Democratic Club’s First Zoom Meeting Welcomes

Sheriff Paul Penzone
August 1, 2020

Sheriff Paul Penzone spoke with the PebbleCreek Democratic Club during their July meeting.

Alisa Moore

Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone was the speaker for the PebbleCreek (PC) Democratic
Club’s inaugural Zoom meeting. The Sheriff is running for re-election and given the protests and
moves to change law enforcement budgets, responsibilities, and oversight, the club could not have
hosted a timelier or more interesting speaker.

Sheriff Penzone defeated Joe Arpaio in 2016, with a mandate to clean up the sheriff’s office. Two
related federal court orders had been in place since 2013 that ruled that the Maricopa County
Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) had systematically violated the rights of Latinos for years by racially profiling
Hispanic drivers. As a result, Sheriff Penzone had two immediate obligations related to those orders:
to implement and document compliance with those orders, and to reduce the lawsuits that were
commonplace to stop the unacceptable waste of taxpayer dollars. The settlement of lawsuits from
the Arpaio years, their related expenses, and the necessary changes in the department, including
hiring staff, will have cost the taxpayers of Maricopa County over $178 million dollars by mid-2021.

Under Sheriff Penzone’s leadership, the MCSO is committed to a mission of ethical, effective, and
impactful law enforcement and public safety. They are also focused on programs and initiatives to
help promote partnerships and trust between their office and our communities. For instance, MCSO
now regularly conducts upwards of 50 community outreach events each month across the county.

The MCSO is the primary or supporting law enforcement agency for a population of more than four
million residents operating in the fourth largest county in America. MCSO’s jails process and house
all felony and most misdemeanor inmates for Maricopa County, in excess of 100,000 intakes
annually.
Sheriff Penzone oversees an annual budget of nearly $400 million dollars. Through effective
management, in his first year, Sheriff Penzone created a $20 million budget surplus, returning $9
million to Maricopa County and reinvesting the rest into MCSO.

Sheriff Penzone and his team have created a number of programs to reduce drug abuse and
recidivism, including the MOSAIC Program, a seven-week program working to break the
incarceration cycle with medium to high risk inmates. The program currently shows a 20% reduction
in recidivism among participants who have already completed the program, helping lower the crime
rate, saving money in detention housing, and transforming inmates into productive citizens who go
on to build stronger communities.

Paul has a combined 30 years of law enforcement and public safety experience, including a
distinguished 21-year career with the Phoenix Police Department, with seven years dedicated to
solving cold cases and apprehending dangerous fugitives.

The PC Dem Club’s next meeting is Aug. 6 by Zoom. The Men’s Breakfast also meets by Zoom.
Look for details in upcoming emails.