JOE ARPAIO, MIKE ZULLO TARGETED JUDGE, SERGEANT TESTIFIES

Sheriff Joe Arpaio suffered another damaging round of testimony Friday in his ongoing contempt trial, as an MCSO detective on the so-called "Seattle investigation" explained how Arpaio and Cold Case Posse honcho Mike Zullo used a confidential informant to target federal Judge G. Murray Snow.

Sergeant Travis Anglin, who worked the case with Zullo and Detective Brian Mackiewicz for the first five months of 2014, depicted an Arpaio focused on getting damaging intelligence on Snow. This, despite the investigation's purported intent to find out if the CIA had "illegally harvested" the personal information of U.S. citizens.

Under questioning by plaintiffs' attorney Michelle Morin, Anglin explained how he first became aware of the investigation involving Seattle CI Dennis Montgomery on December 30, 2013, when his superior, Captain Steve Bailey, introduced him to Zullo at the offices of the MCSO's special investigations division.

Zullo gave Anglin a spiel that the sergeant would hear repeated many times over the next weeks and months, about how Montgomery, an alleged computer whiz and former subcontractor for various government agencies, possessed "hard drives stolen by Montgomery from the CIA."


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