Arizona politician charged in human trafficking adoption scheme
"An Arizona politician ran an adoption fraud scheme that promised pregnant women thousands of dollars to lure them from a Pacific Island nation to the U.S., where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth, sometimes with little to no prenatal care, in what prosecutors called a human smuggling case.
Paul Petersen, the assessor of Arizona’s most populous county, was charged in Utah, Arizona and Arkansas with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery and conspiracy to commit money laundering."
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-09/arizona-politician-human-trafficking-adoption-scheme