Arpaio did investigate Judge Snow. From Snow's decision:
"378. Nevertheless, on April 23, 2015, the third day of the hearing, Sheriff Arpaio testified that not only had the MCSO never been involved in investigating this Court but that he was not aware that the Court or any of the Court’s activities had ever been investigated by anyone. (Doc. 1083, Ex. 1.) He reaffirmed this statement three weeks after his initial testimony in a statement made under penalty of perjury filed with the Court. (Id., Ex. 1 ¶¶ 5, 7 (Sheriff Arpaio stating: “Judge Snow asked if I was aware of anyone investigating him. I responded, ‘No[,]’ . . . [a]t no time was an investigation initiated against Judge Snow or any of his family members.”).) These statements, made while Arpaio was under oath, constitute deliberate misstatements of fact made in bad faith."
That’s a bullsh*t ruling by a crooked judge. There’s nothing in law that requires a sheriff to reveal who he’s investigating, including a federal judge. Judges are not immune to investigation, and a sheriff has no legal obligation to inform a judge that he’s the subject of a criminal investigation. The sheriff should tell this fascist judge to go F himself.
Let me add, too, that the USSC has ruled numerous times that criminal investigators can lie and mislead subjects who are under investigation for criminal activity.
Sheriff Joe did not investigate Judge Snow. Judge Snow’s wife saw a childhood friend at a restaurant where she said in front of witnesses that her husband couldn’t stand Arpaio and wanted to get him out of office. A private investigator for Joe only talked to the lady who reported what Snow’s wife said to see if she was credible. At that point they learned the witness, her son and her husband all heard the conversation and could verify it’s veracity.
Imagine being a defendant in a case where the judge’s wife has said the judge wants to take you down! That was investigating a claim left by someone on Arpaio’s website—not investigating the judge. Arpaio is in a case having to do with checking illegals id’s and the judge goes off on a totally unrelated tangent acting like a prosecutor. It went downhill from there. I actually read most of transcripts from this case. I don’t remember the judge ruling for the defendants once. If the plaintiffs had an objection or wanted something he always ruled for them. His brother in law and former employee worked for groups involved with this total miscarriage of justice.