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Check out # 21.
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Phoenix, Arizona — Paul Petersen, the assessor of Arizona’s largest county has been indicted in connection with 11 felony offenses, including human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud in an adoption fraud scheme, authorities said.
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office confirmed the 32-count federal indictment Tuesday against Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen for conspiracy, theft, forgery, and 29 counts of fraudulent schemes...”
Petersen has for years run an adoption law practice in Mesa that involves bringing women from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. to give birth.
Their babies are then adopted by U.S. parents, authorities said. - Petersen charged $40,000 per adoption, according to his website.
Thanks, Brown Deer.
Has some additional information . . .
Arizona Adoption Attorney Arrested for Human Trafficking Had Strong Connections to Jeff Flake and John McCain