GOP official charged in smuggling pregnant women and selling the babies at 40k & Bills Medicaid

[Baz Ares]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

 

[bodecea]

Guess he couldn't get in on the ICE child trafficking.

 

[Baz Ares]

Guess he couldn't get in on the ICE child trafficking.

Guess making 2.7M in less than 2 years was the carrot.

 

[depotoo]

Throw the book at him if guilty.

 

[Andylusion]

Fantastic. Unlike left-wingers, we press charges on people that do wrong, whether they are part of the GOP or not.
That is great news, that scum is getting jailed for a crime.

Don't you wish Democrats were the same, and Hillary and all the rest of the criminals in their party were held to account?

 

[Baz Ares]

Throw the book at him if guilty.

Fantastic. Unlike left-wingers, we press charges on people that do wrong, whether they are part of the GOP or not.
That is great news, that scum is getting jailed for a crime.

Don't you wish Democrats were the same, and Hillary and all the rest of the criminals in their party were held to account?

Dang? As a DOPer is this the best you can do below?
With your Great Orange Douche doll toy.

 

[Rustic]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

It’s all progressive behavior, because everyone knows all career politicians are progressives

 

[bodecea]

Fantastic. Unlike left-wingers, we press charges on people that do wrong, whether they are part of the GOP or not.
That is great news, that scum is getting jailed for a crime.

Don't you wish Democrats were the same, and Hillary and all the rest of the criminals in their party were held to account?

Refresh our memories...who controls the DOJ right now?

 

[depotoo]

Throw the book at him if guilty.

Fantastic. Unlike left-wingers, we press charges on people that do wrong, whether they are part of the GOP or not.
That is great news, that scum is getting jailed for a crime.

Don't you wish Democrats were the same, and Hillary and all the rest of the criminals in their party were held to account?

Dang? As a DOPer is this the best you can do below?
With your Great Orange Douche doll toy.

Wow, what an extraneous response.

 

[Baz Ares]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

It’s all progressive behavior, because everyone knows all career politicians are progressives

So you're saying all the GOP senators in congress over 2 terms are progressives?

 

[Rustic]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

It’s all progressive behavior, because everyone knows all career politicians are progressives

So you're saying all the GOP senators in congress over 2 terms are progressives?

Absolutely, their behavior is proof

 

[jknowgood]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

Ok, then execute him the same day he is found guilty. You against that?

 

[Andylusion]

Throw the book at him if guilty.

Fantastic. Unlike left-wingers, we press charges on people that do wrong, whether they are part of the GOP or not.
That is great news, that scum is getting jailed for a crime.

Don't you wish Democrats were the same, and Hillary and all the rest of the criminals in their party were held to account?

Dang? As a DOPer is this the best you can do below?
With your Great Orange Douche doll toy.

Your post makes no sense. I'm saying it's great that we're sending this guy to prison (hopefully).

Shouldn't you be agreeing with me? Are you saying you disagree? Or do you have nothing else of value to say, so now we're pointing unrelated GIFs, that add nothing to the conversation?

 

[tycho1572]

These criminals are starting to learn their criminal behavior won’t be tolerated by our current administration. The obama days are over!

 

[Baz Ares]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

Ok, then execute him the same day he is found guilty. You against that?

Based on what I read hear, after being convicted at trial.
I prefer these people are made to suffer pains that will make them kill themselves.
I want them to have screws drilled in them. Let them stay for a few days. Remove
them and relocate to a new area that does not kill them. And they can't pull out to kill themselves
somehow. They die after they stop screaming when screws go in. say in 20 years.
But we don't allow them to die before that. It's worth the money. Will make others think.
before doing crimes. LIVE HBO pay per view to fund it.

Too much?

 

[Baz Ares]

These criminals are starting to learn their criminal behavior won’t be tolerated by our current administration. The obama days are over!

 

[jknowgood]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

Ok, then execute him the same day he is found guilty. You against that?

Based on what I read hear, after being convicted at trial.
I prefer these people are made to suffer pains that will make them kill themselves.
I want them to have screws drilled in them. Let them stay for a few days. Remove
them and relocate to a new area that does not kill them. And they can't pull out to kill themselves
somehow. They die after they stop screaming when screws go in. say in 20 years.
But we don't allow them to die before that. It's worth the money. Will make others think.
before doing crimes. LIVE HBO pay per view to fund it.

Too much?

No, not really. Would be a deterrent for others to follow. You also talking about doing the same for your fellow democrats?

 

[Manonthestreet]

This is all a lie. Illegals don't cost us a dime, libs tol me so

 

[Correll]

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies
Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in three states with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling 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, prosecutors allege.

Paul Petersen, the Republican 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.

The charges span about three years and involve some 75 adoptions. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said.

Petersen charged families $25,000-$40,000 per adoption and brought about $2.7 million into a bank account for adoption fees in less than two years, according to court documents.

"The commoditization of children is simply evil," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

The adoptive parents are considered victims along with the birth mothers, and no completed adoptions will be undone, authorities said.

Petersen's attorney, Matthew Long, defended his client's actions during a Tuesday court hearing in Phoenix as "proper business practices" and said they disagreed with the allegations.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Petersen should resign from his elected position determining the taxable value for properties in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs.

Petersen served a two-year mission in the Marshall Islands for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Reyes said. He was later recruited by an international adoption agency while in law school because of his fluency in Marshallese, according to a 2013 Phoenix Business Journal story.

The scheme defrauded Arizona's Medicaid system of $800,000 because the women had no intention of remaining in the state when they applied, according to Arizona prosecutors.

between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese citizens can enter the U.S. and work without a visa, unless they're traveling for the purpose of adoption, authorities said.

GOP official charged in scheme to smuggle pregnant women and sell their babies

DANG... Religion does MAGA! We know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is involved here.

Glad he is caught. Hope he does some serious time.


But, "crammed into houses"?