Maricopa County Sheriffs Office

Joe Arpaio, Sheriff

For Release: December 15, 2016

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sets the Record Straight

Arpaio Releases All Findings Related to the Investigation Into
President Barak Obamas Birth Certificate
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Lead Investigator,
Mike Zullo, in a press conference this afternoon, set the record straight and
released the investigative data and findings in the years-long investigation into the
birth certificate document of President Barak Obama. The document in question
was released by the White House in 2011 following the demands from the public
to show proof of citizenship. New evidence includes forensic analysis showing
the characters on the document were pieced together from secondary sources.
(Maricopa County, AZ)

In August of 2011, the Surprise Tea party met with Sheriff Arpaio and presented
him with 242 signatures of Maricopa County citizens asking for an investigation
into whether President Obamas official birth certificate, presented on the White
House website, is authentic or a forgery. Sheriff Arpaio agreed to look into the
matter after it was believed the document displayed by the White House was a
fraud and affected the American public, which includes the citizens of Maricopa
County.
Sheriff Arpaio says, My concern was not where the president was born, but
whether the document presented to the people was a fraud.
The overwhelming forensic evidence shows the posted document is nothing more
than a created document pieced together using another source document. The
original source document used in creating the fraudulent birth certificate is in fact
an official Hawaiian Birth Certificate belonging to Johana Ahnee. Evidence
shows there are 9 separate elements of forensic artifacts that were lifted and place
directly on the Obama birth certificate in an apparent attempt to make it appear
authentic.
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The forensic evidence was verified by two different highly credentialed and
nationally and internationally respected digital document experts who live on two
different continents. Neither of these experts knew each other or the fact that both
were being utilized to look into the documents, however they both arrived at the
same forensic conclusions in this case.
Not only were we unable to clear the document, but as you will see today the
opposite is true.
Mike Zullo says, All we have ever wanted was the truth in this matter, with the
great hope that the document was indeed a valid representation of an original
document. But we had to follow the evidence. We let the evidence determine the
direction of the investigation it is what we always do in any legitimate
investigation. This one was handled no differently.

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