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Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen resigns amidst human smuggling accusations
FOX10 ^ | Jan. 8, 2020 | Nicole Garcia

Posted on 01/09/2020 9:14:50 AM PST by bgill

Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, who is accused of running a human smuggling operation that paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to give up their babies in the U.S., has resigned from his position...

Thousands of files related to his adoption business were discovered on his government laptop, cementing the board's push to remove him. Content recovered on the laptop included text messages of pregnant women being threatened when they changed their minds about giving up their newborns.

Prosecutors say for several years, Petersen was paying women to come to the United States to give birth and give their babies up for adoption. He is also accused of using taxpayer money to help pay for their healthcare.

As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Petersen completed a proselytizing mission in the Marshall Islands, a collection of atolls and islands in the eastern Pacific. Citizens of the Marshall Islands have been prohibited from traveling to the U.S. for adoption purposes since 2003.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox10phoenix.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: humansmuggling; maricopa
Hmm, maybe the feds should ask him about possibly reverse transporting wacko Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell outta Dodge to some remote atoll.

7.5% population of Marshall Islands is Mormon. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_the_Marshall_Islands

1 posted on 01/09/2020 9:14:50 AM PST by bgill
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Sadly enough, he appears to be one of ours.


2 posted on 01/09/2020 9:23:48 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Better Call Saul


3 posted on 01/09/2020 9:24:40 AM PST by keving (We the government)
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It’s starting to look to me like Mormons are big enablers of the illegal alien invasion. Mike Lee, Orrin Hatch, this guy.


4 posted on 01/09/2020 9:25:34 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Human smugglers should be shot.


5 posted on 01/09/2020 9:26:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Those Mormons sure do get around.


6 posted on 01/09/2020 9:33:44 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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Those Mormons love
destroying this country with a foreign invasion for a buck

Is Evil Mike Lee involved here too .

7 posted on 01/09/2020 9:42:02 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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it seems that the Mormons go after these poor nations and recruit so they can add diversity to their community.....they definitely recruit to get bigger, stronger people into their mix..look at their “Mormon” athletes from the Pacific Islands....its not coincidence...


8 posted on 01/09/2020 9:42:27 AM PST by cherry
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To: Menehune56

Mormons worship money and sex.


9 posted on 01/09/2020 9:43:39 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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Mormon Mafia working for Romney, Flake and Reid.
I bet he has worked for McCain or Flake in the past.


10 posted on 01/09/2020 9:51:41 AM PST by Zathras
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The economy of Utah is based on population growth. Babies, legal immigration, illegal immigration, converts, you name it. Been going on for decades. The good ol boys club is made up of church leaders, real estate developers and utilities.


11 posted on 01/09/2020 10:00:38 AM PST by reintarnation (not a noob, i just change my identity over the years...)
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>> Human smugglers should be shot.

Long branch. Short rope.


(*Bullets work too, but aren't reusable. Let's save some money.)

12 posted on 01/09/2020 10:28:03 AM PST by Mike-o-Matic
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Good thing Obama got rid of Sheriff Arpiao, wouldn’t want him arresting any county officials now would we.


13 posted on 01/09/2020 10:29:19 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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