Arizona official pleads guilty to baby selling scheme that shipped pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to Utah – then put their infants up for adoption at a price

Paul Petersen, a Republican who served county assessor in Phoenix for six years, pleaded guilty in Utah to human smuggling
He made separate plea deal in Arizona on Medicaid fraud charges
Petersen admitted to bringing pregnant women from Marshall Islands to the US to give birth, and then putting their children up for adoption for cash
Petersen’s scheme spanned three states and involved at least 70 adoption cases
Prosecutors said Peterson paid Marshallese mothers $10,000 each to give their babies up, then charged American families $25,000-$40,000 to adopt them

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