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Arizona official arrested in alleged ‘Baby Mill’ adoption fraud scheme from Marshall Islands

LITTLE ROCK, 10 OCTOBER 2019 (NPR) — A public official in Arizona has been arrested in connection with charges that he ran a multimillion-dollar scheme in which he smuggled pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to profit from their new-born babies. Authorities say Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen’s fraudulent adoption enterprise left a trail of […]