Arizona sheriff confronted with recurring retaliation claims (Arpaio)
Source: AP
PHOENIX (AP) — Weeks after a court-ordered overhaul of his office, an Arizona sheriff with a reputation for retaliation received a fax that critics say proves he was secretly investigating a judge who ruled against him in a racial profiling case.
The 2013 fax from an informant was written as a timeline of key developments in the profiling case: It cited the judge's assignment to the case, claimed federal authorities were wiretapping the phone of one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's aides, and suggested both happened shortly after the U.S. Justice Department allegedly called the judge.
Arpaio's office went on to spend $250,000 investigating, despite questions about the informant's credibility. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow characterized the investigation as an attempt to construct a "bogus conspiracy theory" to discredit him.
The six-term sheriff has been accused in the past of investigating judges at odds with him. But recent court hearings that examined the fax marked the boldest public attempt to confront Arpaio on the recurring retaliation allegation.
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