Posted on 07/26/2015 7:40:41 AM PDT by rktman
A judge on Friday ordered the seizure of identification documents and computer hard drives from Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office, and chastised his attorneys for failing to turn over the evidence, requested months ago in a racial-profiling case against the Arizona lawman.
The U.S. Marshals Service later raided the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow ordered the raid after a court-ordered monitor reported the sheriff’s office failed to hand over more than 1,400 identification documents – driver’s licenses, passports and identification cards – as part of a misconduct investigation involving the sheriff’s office.
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Harassment
U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow is a George W. Bush appointee and a graduate of Brigham Young University’s Law School.
Is this guy a Sodomite?
Who knows? He is married. One of the issues that put Judge Snow in a hostile mood concerning Sheriff Arpaio is that Sheriff Arpaio’s office had Judge Snow’s wife under investigation.
What was she investigated for?
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio took to the witness stand in his contempt of court hearing, and revealed that he conducted a secret investigation into federal Judge G. Murray Snow and his family.
Arpaio dropped the bombshell as Judge Snow questioned him in a Phoenix courtroom.
Nearly two years ago, the judge ordered Sheriff Arpaio and his officers to stop racially motivated immigration patrols throughout the Phoenix metro area. This week’s civil hearing is to determine whether or not Arpaio violated that order.
Judge Snow took a turn asking Arpaio questions after lawyers did.
“Are you aware that I’ve been investigated by anyone?” the judge asked.
Arpaio stumbled for an answer then admitted his lawyer Tim Casey had hired someone to investigate Snow’s wife after she allegedly said she didn’t want to see the sheriff re-elected.
Arpaio also testified that he and Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office member Mike Zullo conducted a secret investigation into a second matter “possibly” related to the judge himself.
Snow ordered Arpaio turn over all documents related to the snooping – with the help of a court monitor so that things don’t get lost, “inadvertently or otherwise.”
The third day of testimony began with ACLU lawyer Stanley Young playing previous interviews of Sheriff Arpaio – which he says show the sheriff willingly and knowingly violated the 2011 court order.
A 2012 Fox News interview with Neil Cavuto showed the sheriff defiantly vowing to continue his practices, saying he “is not toning anything down.”
Arpaio responded to the videos with remorse, saying words spoken through the media are sometimes “taken out of context.”
“I’ve been a top federal official for 22 years. I have a deep respect for ... the federal courts and federal judges. I didn’t know all the facts of this court order. And it really hurts me after 55 years to be in this position. I want to apologize to the judge. I should’ve known more about that court order. It fell through the cracks,” Arpaio said on the stand.
With the current state of of fairs in this country, I think everybody should investigate everybody.
Why should the Fed’s be allowed to corner the market on extortion.
(Otherwise...”50 hard drives”...?!?! Sheriff Joe must be second only to the NSA.)
Guess hilbebeast only had a single 10 gig HD?
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