Update, Thursday, 9/9/2021: At the beginning of trial this morning, codefendant Andrew Padilla reported to the judge that he was not feeling well. In an abundance of caution, Judge Brnovich ordered that he have a rapid Covid test. Court was…
In the early morning hours of October 19, 2007, Michael Lacey, then-executive editor of the Village Voice Media chain of alternative newsweeklies, stood outside Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail, addressing a scrum of reporters as he hitched his belt through…
Federal agents investigating several Mohave County, Arizona massage parlors in 2018 received handjobs from victims they were looking to free from lives of sexual slavery, according to unredacted public records recently published in Lake Havasu’sToday’s News-Herald. Seven people were arrested…
The FBI agent put a gun on me. He wore a flak jacket more appropriate to a raid on a terrorist’s bomb factory than on my suburban Phoenix home. He stood at the glass door to my office on the…
Michael Lacey has spent his entire professional life in the newspaper business. With his business partner, Jim Larkin, Lacey cofounded Phoenix New Times during the Vietnam War. The two men would go on to build Village Voice Media, a chain of weeklies…
In an in-depth profile by Elizabeth Nolan Brown published this week on the website Reason.com, veteran newspaper publishers and former Backpage.com co-owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin spoke out candidly about their arrests on federal charges of money laundering, conspiracy,…
In his preposterous campaign for U.S. Senate, Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, and a convicted criminal, has 1) suggested that he can read President Donald Trump’s mind 2) revived the racist conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and…
Proving the pundits wrong, former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio formally announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U. S. Senate, making good on his recent comment to a reporter that he was “seriously considering” entering the contest…
UPDATE 1/10/2018: Front Page Confidential has followed up on this story. Read Stephen Lemons’s ongoing coverage of Joe Arpaio’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate by following the link below: “Pardon Me? Joe Arpaio Declares His U.S. Senate Candidacy” UPDATE 1/9/2018: Late…
Ten years ago, under cover of darkness, agents from the Maricopa County Selective Enforcement Unit came knocking at the Phoenix, Arizona, homes of Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. On orders from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they hauled away both…
