Superior Court Judge Anna Baca chided Wilenchik for trying to arrange a secret meeting with her about the case to begin with. Two and a half years later, still nursing a hell of a grudge, Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas eventually cooked up a scheme straight out of Scooby-Doo: they appointed "special prosecutor" Dennis Wilenchik to go after the paper, issuing grand jury subpoenas for the notes, records, and sources of the paper's editors and reporters for all their Arpaio-related coverage, even down to the IP addresses of people who read these stories. Since he had filed this claim ten months after all the hubbub had happened, the County Attorney's Office and the Pinal County Attorney's Office both did not prosecute, citing a lack of evidence and First Amendment implications. Arpaio eventually requested charges against The Times for revealing the location of his home on the far-reaching grounds that they had posted information posing a threat to an officer of the law. Ironically, records of his commercial property were hidden but the location of his home wasn't. As a result, Arpaio's home address was published, even though that's no surprise because it was already easy to find just by looking up government websites. In 2004, John Dougherty, a reporter for The New York Times, began an investigation into Arpaio's commercial real estate transactions (on the grounds that a county sheriff could accumulate enough money to invest in public property) and why the records were hidden from the public.
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