fell apart. what happened? >> absolutely. very quickly, 2008 the sheriff is elected. she hires as her under sheriff an individual with a checkered pass, subject of a state investigative report for wrongdoing. in his capacity as somebody in a worn chapter of the aspca. that's the first issue. immediately after assuming office, our office, the hunterdon county's office, receives information from an inside source of various wrongdoing in the office and an investigation commences. what's interesting, steve, is the first thing we do is contact the attorney general's office, who is the chief law enforcement office in new jersey, we need help here. there's a conflict. we have two law enforcement agencies who are going to go head-to-head in this investigation. we need your assistance. several letters were sent, and all of them were not responded to. so we were really left to pursue this on our own. and that becomes important later on. we obtain evidence.