Arizona county assessor accused of human smuggling, sale of a child in adoption scheme

PHOENIX — 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.

Petersen illegally obtained services from Arizona's Medicaid system for the women by falsely claiming they are Arizona residents, the indictment said. He also violated U.S. law prohibiting citizens of the Marshall Islands from traveling to the U.S. for the purpose of adoption, the indictment said. "While Mr. Petersen is entitled to a presumption of innocence, our investigation uncovered evidence that he has committed horrible crimes," Reyes said in the statement."Petersen's illegal adoption scheme exploited highly vulnerable groups in two countries — the birth mothers and families in the Marshall Islands and the adoptive parents here in Utah."

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Are these the strong conservative 'family values' you tout MeghanMcCain ?

Wow, another Republican 'Christian' 'man of the cloth' who was, of course, a missionary who took advantage of these women from the Marshall Islands😡 cc: MelissaJPeltier

This is JoeArpaio's county. Imagine that🔥😡

The corruption never ends.

Good grief, another republican criminal !

It’s going to come down that it’s all child trafficking They telegraph what they are doing: PizzaGate the refrain of “they aren’t their parents they’re child traffickers” every time we talk about child separation. Epstein. It’s going to be ugly

Another great example of those Republican family values

What do you think they’re doing with separated children. Devos is in the same business

Shame all the Q weirdos/mentally ill individuals on here didn’t seem to predict this one.

Yup. Time to build an effective barrier, massively curtail immigration, and stridently enforce current immigration law.

A racist Trump supporter who yells 'build the wall', with human trafficking as his side gig.

Any reason why you didn’t explicitly name Paul Petersen in this tweet?

Put him in jail!

IdeaGov I was worried that this was happening. Turns out, it is. There needs to be massive oversight regarding those kids being separated from their families at the border.

He is an active member of the Maricopa County Republican Party, the Arizona Republican Party, and a precinct committeeman in Legislative District 25.

Lemme guess ... Active Republican ? 🤔

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