Nanos: Fruit of a Poison Tree — Career Built on Fraud?

Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz — a fellow Democrat — used three words to describe Sheriff Chris Nanos's 42-year career in Pima County: fruit of a poison tree. The argument is straightforward and damning. If Nanos omitted a forced resignation and eight suspensions from his 1984 Pima County job application — and the records now suggest he did — then the career built on that application was compromised from the start. Everything above it is tainted.

His deputies agree. Two hundred and forty-one voted no confidence. Zero voted to continue. The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to invoke a state statute requiring Nanos to submit sworn statements or face removal. And a December deposition — in which Nanos was asked under oath whether he'd ever been suspended and said no — is now at the center of a public question about whether his answer was truthful.

Nanos says he interpreted the question as applying only to his Pima County career. His El Paso file — obtained by the Arizona Republic — shows eight suspensions totaling thirty-seven days, a suspect who ended up in the intensive care unit, a grand jury, and a resignation submitted in lieu of termination.

He's said he'll comply with the board's order. Whether that compliance is enough to keep him in office — or whether it simply closes the door on the only removal mechanism currently available — is what county attorneys are working to determine right now.

Nancy Guthrie is still missing. The full picture, laid out plainly, is here.

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