You’ve got it backwards. Arpaio was concerned that the regime was spying on HIM as well as on others such as Snow, as Montgomery claimed. He didn’t hire anybody to spy on Snow or anybody else. He did have a private investigator check out whether Snow’s wife had claimed that Snow was trying to get rid of Arpaio - which is a perfectly valid question.
But what does Arpaio being concerned about being spied on have to do with whether he was in contempt of Snow’s order?
It has nothing to do with it. Just like the BC investigation has nothing to do with it.
Snow is on a fishing expedition, as I said.
Spew your poison somewhere else.
That's the spin Arpaio has tried to put on it. The documents which have been turned over to the Court are revealing that Snow was a target of Montgomery's claim he could gather evidence of a conspiracy involving Snow and others against Arpaio. Those documents may open up Arpaio to perjury charges.
But what does Arpaio being concerned about being spied on have to do with whether he was in contempt of Snow’s order?
The Judge himself explains why it's relevant. From the Arizona Republic article linked in the prior post:
Snow wondered aloud why, when the Sheriff's Office should have been dedicating time and money to complying with the court's orders stemming from the racial-profiling case, that the agency was funneling funds and overtime man-hours in an attempt to construct a "bogus conspiracy theory."
The Montgomery debacle goes to the legal question of intent and wilful noncompliance: if Arpaio and the MCSO were - rather than attempting to comply with the Court's order -- devoting time and resources to trying to find a way to undermine the Judge who issued the order, this may show wilful noncompliance.