Maricopa County Republicans, wow! First y’all offer up Joe Arpaio, and now you have Paul Petersen, the Maricopa County tax assessor who this week was indicted on charges that in addition to his elected position, he also ran an adoption and human smuggling scheme—in which he allegedly paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands thousands of dollars to come the United States to give birth and then put the babies up for adoption, oftentimes forcing them to sleep in crammed rooms and without adequate medical care.
Paul Petersen, the Maricopa County tax assessor who this week was indicted on charges that in addition to his elected positionin which he allegedly paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands thousands of dollars to come the United States to give birth and then put the babies up for adoption, oftentimes forcing them to sleep in crammed rooms and without adequate medical care.
Petersen, who had spent two years in the Marshall Islands as part of his missionary work as a Mormon, worked in private practice as an adoption attorney. According to authorities, in recent years, he leaned on his connections as well as his ability to speak Marshallese to set up his adoption scheme. More details of his operation, via the AP:
The expectant mothers were often crowded in the homes, with Marshallese women Petersen employed helping with translation, transportation, legal documents and applications for Medicaid benefits, prosecutors said.
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