Sarah Fenske

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The 25 Most Read Stories of His Previous Term

The numbers are in and somehow Joe Arpaio, our 80-year-old codger of a sheriff, has secured another four-year term as the county's top lawman. If that wasn't enough to get your blood boiling, the self-professed "America's toughest sheriff" is promising to run for Maricopa County Sheriff again in 201 ... More >>

Miriam Hayenga, Phoenix Developer, Suing Prominent Zoning Attorney Paul Gilbert Over What She Says Is Botched Legal Work

See also: Miriam Hayenga Proves You Can Fight City Hall, After All See also: Don't Even Think About Fighting City Hall Unless You're a Good Old Boy A few years ago, we told you about Miriam Hayenga and her quest for justice over what she says was bungled legal work from prominent zoning attorney Pa ... More >>

Grant Goodman, Disgraced Local Attorney, Shot Down By Appellate Court

Grant Goodman, a Phoenix (now suspended) attorney who had his 15 minutes of fame a few years ago as an alleged champion of local folks being abused by their legal guardians/conservators and by the Maricopa County Probate Court, has lost yet another case--his own.   ​  In a memoran ... More >>

More Nonsense From Thomas: Claims TV Reporter Revealed News of Lawyer's County Clients, but Judge had Ruled on Issue Months Prior

TV reporter Josh Bernstein is one of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' heroes.​ New setting, same old story.Under oath while on the stand this morning in the his disciplinary "trial," former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas claimed that a TV reporter gave his office a great ... More >>

Ed Moriarity, Lisa Aubuchon's Pro-Bono Lawyer in Bar Discipline Case, Makes for Good Theater -- but Not Good Defense

​Ed Moriarity, Lisa Aubuchon's pro-bono lawyer from Montana, has helped represent celebrity clients from Imelda Marcos to Karen Silkwood.According to his former partner, Gerry Spence, Moriarity was born in a mineshaft.Since his opening statement in the State Bar disciplinary hearings for former Ma ... More >>

Grant Goodman, Attorney, Gets Law License Suspended For Exploiting "Vulnerable" Probate Court Clients

​Local attorney Grant Goodman had his law license suspended for five years following a finding that he habitually exploited "vulnerable" Probate Court clients.In an order signed yesterday by William O'Neil, the presiding disciplinary judge for the Arizona State Bar, Goodman's actions are described ... More >>

Camelback Corridor: Phoenix City Council Deciding Whether To Strip Building Restrictions From 44th Street & Camelback Road Project

Phoenix City Hall​The Phoenix City Council is expected to vote later today on whether or not to strip the northwest corner of 444th Street and Camelback Road of zoning restrictions that now limit the building heights to 36 feet.If the restrictions are removed, building heights would increase to 56 ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Spying on County Lawyers? Would Anyone Be Surprised?

Morten OddvikThe new sign over the door of MCSO offices? Seems appropriate...What's one to make of the recent back and forth between Maricopa County and sheriff's office lawyers regarding allegations of spying by the MCSO?The claims came to light in a recent item by Arizona Republic reporter Yvonne ... More >>

Andrew Thomas and Joe Arpaio "Corruption" Case Against County Judge: a Dog

Back from Maricopa County Sheriff's Office headquarters in downtown Phoenix, where we spent a few hours looking through public files involving the infamous, spectacularly overblown (yet never prosecuted) "bribery" case against Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe. Conclusion: & ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 10, 2010

MLK Invoked by Judge Gary Donahoe for Inscription on Court Tower Beam

Remember Gary Donahoe, the Superior Court judge accused late last year of "bribery" by County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio?   ​Though that skanky dog of a case was dropped before it really ever got going (we never will forget this press conference), the boys succeeded in ... More >>

Video Clips, Links From Sheila Polk's Bombshell Testimony in Hearing to Disqualify Andrew Thomas

Earlier this week, Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk took the stand to testify about her dealings with Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The testimony was ostensibly about the criminal case against County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox -- Wilcox's lawyer, Colin Campbell, ... More >>

Josh Bernstein of ABC-15 Ripped by Boss in E-Mail; Told to Cover Sheriff Joe Arpaio More Aggressively

Image: www.abc15.com Josh Bernstein needs to find his shovel, says his boss.​ Yikes. We're working overtime today to make sure the boss doesn't send us a memo like the one Josh Bernstein over at ABC-15 recently received. To paraphrase: Stop smooching Sheriff Arpaio's rear-end and start kick ... More >>

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Hendershott Still Won't Talk About the SCA

​ We interviewed Maricopa County Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott (pictured) today about this computer-takeover business and his possible trip to jail next week, so naturally we asked him about his involvement in the SCA, too.He didn't bite. "You'll have to talk to the lawyers about that," he tel ... More >>

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Stapley's the One Facing 118 Criminal Counts, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Got Financial Disclosure Problems of His Own

  Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley now faces118 criminal counts of failing to properly disclose his real estate dealings on public disclosure forms -- but Stapley apparently isn't the only guy who forgot to disclose all his real estate transactions. A New Times investigati ... More >>

Fried: Hanny's P.A.T.

  My significant other is a notorious grump -- which has never been more evident than in his initial response to Hanny's, Karl Kopp's new downtown Phoenix hotspot. Here we have a gorgeous old building transformed into a stylin' new space, courtesy of the same people behind Scottsdale's ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Transition Team Includes a Photo Enforcement Bigshot

  For all you Republicans out there hoping that a new governor means the end of Janet Napolitano's highly irritating plot to balance the state budget by putting photo enforcement cameras everywhere, we have a little warning for you: Don't get your hopes up. We couldn't help but notice tha ... More >>

Goldwater Institute Calls Out Sheriff Joe: MCSO "Has Lost Sight Of Its Most Essential Priorities"

  The Goldwater Institute has released a harsh critique of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office -- concluding that the office "falls seriously short in all three of the core components of its mission" and calling for policy reform. Among other things, the Phoenix- ... More >>

SCA-Gate Investigator to MCSO Commander Joel Fox: Show Us the Records

An independent law firm investigating whether a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office commander illegally funneled money to the Arizona Republican Party is demanding that the commander produce a list of donors by December 1. But, in a letter to that investigator, Commander Joel Fox (pictu ... More >>

The Sun Devils Celebrated Solar Power with a Free Concert at ASU on Monday, November 3

Andrew Thomas and Crew Likely Authors of Anonymous Blogs, Report States

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, July 17, 2008

Barnes and Ignoble: Sheriff Joe Arpaio autographs a book for Scott Norberg, suffocated to death June 1, 1996 in one of Joe's gulags.

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