PAGING ROMNEY……….PAGING ROMNEY
A former Arizona politician pleaded guilty in Utah on Friday to human smuggling and other charges in an illegal adoption scheme that stretched across three states and involved pregnant women brought illegally from the Marshall Islands.
Paul Petersen, a Republican who served county assessor in metro Phoenix for six years until his resignation in January, has also struck a plea agreement with Arizona prosecutors on state Medicaid-fraud charges. He’s expected to enter a similar plea in Arkansas this week.
Petersen was charged with illegally paying women from the Pacific island nation to come to the United States to give up their babies in at least 70 adoption cases in Arizona, Utah and Arkansas over three years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8451099/Arizona-official-pleads-guilty-fraud-adoption-scheme.html