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Jan 22, 2021 · Paul Petersen, 45, a former adoption attorney who was the Maricopa County Assessor for six years, was sentenced for six years in December after pleading guilty in a federal court in Arkansas...
Oct 9, 2019 · Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen is facing state and federal charges in three states in connection to an adoption scheme stretching from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to Arkansas,...
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Apr 21, 2021 · SALT LAKE CITY — Paul Petersen, a former Maricopa County Assessor in Arizona, was been sentenced in Utah Wednesday for his involvement in an adoption scheme that involved bringing women from...
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ABC15 talked exclusively with one man who says he has adopted three young Marshallese kids with the help of Petersen, and the situation has been “fantastic since day one.” The man, who asked not to be identified, says he was blindsided by Petersen’s arrest. When asked if he got the feeling Petersen was doing anything wrong, he replied, “There are n...
Court documents obtained by ABC15 show how and why officials began investigating Maricopa County Assessor Paul D. Petersen's alleged involvement in an adoption fraud scheme. In December 2018, court documents show that the Arizona Department of Public Safety received information regarding suspicious activity involving an Arizona attorney "conducting...
Officials from Arizona, Arkansas, and Utah all held simultaneous press conferences on October 9 to share information on charges against Petersen. The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, the FBI, and the Arkansas Attorney General announced 19 federal charges. The federal cha...
Julie is a parent of six children, four of whom are adopted. However, none of her adopted children are from Petersen's agency due to all the red flags she says were raised during their time talking with him. Within days of speaking to Petersen, Julie and her husband were matched with a pregnant woman in Utah "right away," a rarity in the adoption w...
Paul Petersen is an elected official. Since Petersen is an elected official, he would have to step down from the role. So, even if constituents demand a replacement, the Board of Supervisors ask and Republican political operatives plead with him, none of it matters. Whether or not Petersen steps down because of the crimes he is accused of committin...
Jun 22, 2020 · LAUREN GILGER: Paul Peterson has admitted to felonies in two of three U.S. states where prosecutors said he ran an illegal adoption scam involving women from the Marshall Islands. The former Maricopa County assessor pleaded guilty in Arizona and Utah late last week.
Paul Petersen, the former Republican elected official who pleaded guilty in three courts for an adoption fraud case, was sentenced to five years in prison in his home state of Arizona on Friday.
Dec 1, 2020 · Paul Petersen, the former Maricopa County assessor who was accused of running an illegal adoption scheme in three states and smuggling several dozen pregnant women to Utah from the Marshall Islands, is headed to prison.
