By Tim Ryan
Courthouse News
December 12, 2018
Leveling defamation claims against three news outlets and their reporters, pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio accused the journalists in a federal complaint Monday of overstating his criminal history.
President Donald Trump pardoned Arpaio in 2017 after the former Maricopa County sheriff was found guilty of criminal contempt for ignoring a court order directing his office to stop detaining people it suspected of being in the country illegally.