Clad in dress clothes, the man identified himself as a private investigator and said he was conducting a criminal investigation into election fraud.
“You’re not going to come in here, grill me like this and I’m not going to find out what’s going on.”Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf.
Bridget Bennett / Reuters fileShe soon learned that the deputy and the private investigator had visited other township offices as part of an effort to find evidence of election fraud.
And the man responsible for it was the top lawman in the area — Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf.
Leaf fashions himself as a “constitutional sheriff.” Sheriffs like him see themselves as holding supreme authority in their counties, exceeding that of state and federal law enforcement officials.
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