SHERIFF ARPAIO: WHY IS OBAMA STILL RUNNING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT?

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – After being convicted of criminal
misdemeanor contempt, former Maricopa Co. Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues
to attack the Obama holdovers in the Trump Justice Department who
seeking to imprison him for enforcing the very immigration laws
President Trump has sworn to enforce.
“Why is Barack
Obama is still running the Trump Justice Department?” Arpaio asked
Infowars.com in an exclusive interview.  “Ironically, this is a ‘revenge
prosecution’ in which Obama-holdovers in the Justice Department are
seeking to enforce a court order that socialist LaRaza lawyer Tom Perez
imposed on me because I refused to make Maricopa County into a sanctuary
for illegal immigrants.”
The irony of the case is that the
criminal misdemeanor contempt charge is being pressed against Arpaio by
the Public Integrity Section (PIN) of the Criminal Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice – the section within the Justice Department that
holds exclusive jurisdiction over the prosecution of alleged criminal
official misconduct, as well as over the prosecution of alleged judicial
misconduct — a relevant fact in that the actions of District Court
Judge Murray Snow have been called into question by Arpaio’s legal team.

“How can the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department
prosecute me when all I did was to honestly enforce the immigration laws
currently on the books?” Arpaio asked Infowars.com in an exclusive
telephone interview.
“The Public Integrity prosecutors who are
still after me are all Obama hold-overs who went so far as to charge me
under the wrong statute so they could deny me a jury trial, refusing to
drop their open-borders amnesty agenda,” he argued.
“How is it
that Attorney General Sessions ignored a letter Sheriff Arpaio’s
attorneys had hand-delivered to his office, when all Sheriff Arpaio
requested was that the Justice Department consider insisting the Public
Integrity Section would allow hi my right as a U.S. citizen to a trial
before a jury of my peers?” Arpaio asked.
“It’s ironic that I’m
being persecuted by Obama hold-overs Justice Department Public Integrity
Section that thinks denying me a jury trial by erroneously using an
inappropriate statute, even after being made aware of this by my
attorneys, somehow doesn’t implicate them in official misconduct and the
potential to be criminally prosecuted themselves,” Arpaio insisted.
“A revenge prosecution”
Infowars.com has previously reported
the case against Arpaio began with the 2007 traffic stop that resulted
in the arrest of Ortega Melendres, a Mexican tourist who was a passenger
in an automobile stopped in Cave Creek, Maricopa County.
Melendres charged
the Maricopa County sheriff’s officers were “fundamentally stopping
brown-skinned people with the pretext of looking for criminals.”
The
case developed into a class action lawsuit that caught the attention of
Eric Holder and Tom Perez, then in the Civil Rights division of the
Obama Justice Department.
Arpaio, a target of the Obama
administration for years because of his determination to enforce
strictly existing immigration laws, was seen by Perez, acting under the
orders of Eric Holder, as implementing in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s
Office (MCSO) a “systematic policy” that set law enforcement rules and
procedures to be intentionally discriminatory to the rights of
Hispanics.
Perez began his legal career as a LaRaza attorney in
Maryland. He currently is Chair of the Democratic National Committee, a
major force in moving the Democratic Party in a hard-left direction.
Now
at 85-years-old, after a distinguished career that includes service in
the U.S. Army from 1950-1953, service as a police officer in Washington,
D.C., and Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as working as a top federal drug
enforcement officer in foreign countries and the United States. Arpaio, a
former DEA narcotics agent and  head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, for Arizona, faces criminal
charges that could see him convicted to six-months in jail if found
guilty.
Arpaio’s plea to Attorney General Jeff Sessions ignored
Arpaio’s
attorney, Mark Goldman, Goldman & Zillinger PLLC in Scottsdale, AZ,
sent to Attorney General Sessions a letter dated June 22, 2017, that
was requesting the Department of Justice to consider various pleas
before the start of the bench trial then scheduled to begin on Monday,
June 26, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton, in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Infowars.com has confirmed that several efforts
were made to contact Attorney General Sessions directly and through
trusted intermediaries in an effort to get Justice Department attention
to Goldman’s letter.
 Infowars.com
can also confirm that Attorney General Sessions was insolated within
the Justice Department so that all attempts to communicate with him
failed.
Ultimately, Goldman’s letter was ignored, and
with the Justice Department’s failure to intervene in the case, Judge
Bolton began the bench trial against Arpaio as originally scheduled.
“The
criminal contempt allegations stem from an alleged failure of the
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Offices (MCSO) to comply with an Order of the
Court (preliminary injunction) dated December 23, 2011,” Goldman’s
letter read.
“This charge relates back to the prior Obama
administration and a time when the Sheriff’s practices were in direct
opposition to the Obama administration in regards to immigration
policy,” Goldman’s letter continued. “The Sheriff was enforcing the law.
The Obama administration appears to have been interested in doing the
opposite for apparent political reasons.”
In the letter, Goldman
argued the Obama Justice Department allowed Arpaio to be charged with
criminal contempt misdemeanor charges under the wrong statute, precisely
because the statute of limitations on the correct statute had run out,
and the incorrect statute allowed Judge Bolton to deny Arpaio the right
to a jury trial.
Here is what Goldman wrote:

• “In
  regards to other aspects of the prosecution, we request that you
  reconsider the DOJ’s prosecution of this matter because it was
  incorrectly brought under 18 U.S.C. Section 401. Section 401 relates to a
  simple criminal contempt of a lawful order. The matter should have been
  brought under 18 U.S.C. Section 402. Section 402 applies to
  contumacious conduct that is also a separate crime as more particularly
  described in the attached Petition. The allegations in this matter
  compel it to be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. Section 402 that entitles the
  offender to a jury trial in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 3691.
  Additionally, Section 402 offenses come with a one year statute of
  limitations.
• “Given that the matter was not charged under the
  correct statute, and consequently the Department of Justice has deprived
  Sheriff Arpaio of his jury trial right and the applicable statute of
  limitations, in the interest of justice we request that you move the
  Court to dismiss the criminal contempt proceedings or, at the very
  least, move the Court to stay the trial pending a full review of this
  matter by your office.
• “Time is of the essence for the reason that this matter.”

Goldman
also argued the Obama Justice Department had timed various announcement
coincident with Arizona voting deadlines in 2016, so as to influence
voters to defeat Arpaio’s bid for re-election – an effort that is in
direct conflict with DOJ policies instituted by Eric Holder.
“The
announcements had an undeniable effect upon Sheriff Arpaio’s campaign to
be elected to a seventh term in office,” Goldman wrote. “The impact on
Sheriff Arpaio’s re-election campaign is clear.  He is no longer
Sheriff.”
Obama and Lynch plan to oust Arpaio from office
Largely
as a result of the adverse publicity from facing criminal contempt
charges, Arpaio lost on Nov. 8, 2016, his seventh bid to be elected
Maricopa County Sheriff.
The challenger, Paul Penzone, a Democrat and a former Phoenix police sergeant who lost to Arpaio in 2012, won
the sheriff’s election in 2016 only after the Justice Department under
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced criminal charges would be
brought against Arpaio. This, combined with George Soros backing
Penzone’s campaign positioned to Arizona’s growing Hispanic population.
Throughout the entire case, the Obama DOJ pursued Arpaio with a vengeance.
On
Jan. 5, 2012, when the Department of Justice dropped the initial
criminal case against Arpaio in favor of pursuing the civil case, the
Department of Justice sent
the author an email, explaining, “If MCSO wants to debate the facts
rather than fixing the problems stated in our findings, we will do so by
way of litigation.”
According to information provided the author
by a credible whistleblower, while the Department of Justice was
prosecuting Arpaio from 2008 to 2010, the National Security Agency
conducted electronic surveillance of the various Arizona-based federal
judges on the case, as well as on Arpaio, and on the Maricopa County
Sheriff’s Office.
At the same time, Department of Justice attorneys under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder maintained an on-going telephone back-channel discussion with the federal judge assigned to handle the case.
That the Department of Justice conspired to defeat Arpaio is suggested by the timing of his criminal indictment.
In mid-October 2016, with the election approximately three weeks away, the Justice Department announced
that lawyers were preparing to file criminal contempt of court charges
against Arpaio for his alleged violation of Judge Stone’s orders in the
Melendres case.
Then, on Nov. 4, 2016, four days before the election, Politico reported Soros had contributed over $3 million to a Soros-funded PAC, Maricopa Strong, to defeat Arpaio.
Obama holdovers in DOJ seek prison time for Arpaio
On July 31, Judge Bolton found that Arpaio was guilty of misdemeanor criminal contempt.
As Infowars.com has previously reported,
Arpaio’s attorney Mark Goldman explained to Infowars.com in an
exclusive telephone interview and follow-up email that the judge in the
case, U.S. District Susan R. Bolton, was so biased against Arpaio that
she could have written her opinion before the trial even started,
stating her prejudice from the start that Arpaio was guilty of
misdemeanor civil contempt guilty conviction.
Arpaio’s attorneys
are in the process of appealing the misdemeanor criminal court
conviction that has the possibility of forcing him to serve jail time,
depending upon the sentencing order Judge Snow is expected to order on
Oct. 5, 2017, after the DOJ probation department prepares its
presentence investigation report.
Arpaio still has a petition for a
writ of mandamus before the Supreme Court, asking the Supreme Court to
intervene directly in the case with a ruling that Arpaio’s request for a
jury trial should have been granted.
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