
Indicted Maricopa County assessor resigns, awaits criminal trials in adoption fraud scheme
By Jessica Boehm | Arizona Republic Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, who faces dozens of felony charges in three states, resigned from his county job

By Jessica Boehm | Arizona Republic Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, who faces dozens of felony charges in three states, resigned from his county job

By Robert Anglen | Arizona Republic During an Oct. 8 raid, Arizona state troopers found eight pregnant women living in the cramped triplex on Brown

By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors upheld indicted assessor Paul Petersen’s suspension and took things a step further by

Raquel Petersen alleges Maricopa County assessor hid and spent their money for his own benefit. Prosecutors have seized both their assets as potential restitution By

By Andrew Nicla| Arizona Capitol Times Indicted Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen’s co-defendant in an alleged illegal adoption scheme has agreed to testify against him.

By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror A hearing to determine whether the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors would rescind its suspension of indicted assessor Paul

(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussion purposes only.) By Laurie Roberts Arizona Republic A county investigation shows Paul Petersen hasn’t neglected his official

By Jessica Boehm | Arizona Republic A report commissioned by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to investigate embattled County Assessor Paul Petersen turned up

By Dillon Rosenblatt | Arizona Capitol Times Investigators tasked by Maricopa County Officials to investigate Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen found no evidence he “neglected”

By Jessica Boehm | Arizona Republic Social worker Mary Jarman called a young adoption agent named Paul Petersen in the early 2000s to discuss adoption

AG Brnovich gets order to seize Petersen’s and wife’s assets worth up to $1.46 million. With cash and properties frozen, attorney says: ‘How can he

Padlocks and dirty diapers: New owner describes house where Marshallese women stayed Bu Jessica Boehm | Arizona Republic Alanna Mabey didn’t know the man who owned

By Jessica Miller | The Salt Lake Tribune An Arizona public official accused of smuggling pregnant women from the Marshall Islands into at least three

Lawyers for the suspended county assessor want to know how much time Sheriff Paul Penzone, County Board members and others spend on the job Author

By Robert Anglen | Arizona Republic A top leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints denounced Paul Petersen’s adoption scheme as “sickening.”

By Jessica Boehm/Arizona Republic Suspended Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen pleaded not guilty during his first Arizona court appearance Tuesday morning. Petersen faces 32 felony

By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will meet later today to discuss a potential replacement for Maricopa

By Dennis Romboy | KSL A judge substantially reduced the bail Friday for an Arizona elected official accused of running an illegal adoption scheme in

By Dillon Rosenblatt | Arizona Capitol Times Maricopa County Assessor and alleged child trafficker Paul Petersen will find out if he is suspended without pay

By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times Arizona needs some sort of law or procedure to oust elected county officials as

By Brittni Thomason | azfamily The Superior Court in Maricopa County said it has learned of six more pending adoptions through Paul Petersen. The Maricopa

U.S. and Marshall Islands officials say the law clearly bars women from traveling to America to give up babies for adoption. But some attorneys are

Paul Petersen raised eyebrows over a decade ago when he allegedly arranged for a pregnant woman from the Marshall Islands to give birth in the

Father David Petersen forced out of state treasurer post in 2006 By Jessica Boehm | Arizona Republic Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen has been indicted
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