“…Petersen, 44, resigned from his job in Arizona as Maricopa County’s assessor in January. He pleaded guilty in that state Thursday to collaborating to get state-funded health care for adoptive mothers, even though he knew the women didn’t live in Arizona.
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Authorities in Utah have said he brought at least 40 women from the Marshall Islands to the Beehive State to place their babies for adoption over three years, offering each $10,000. [He charged the adoptive families $35,000]. Citizens of the island nation have been barred from traveling to the U.S. for adoptions since 2003.

The women received little or no prenatal care, prosecutors alleged.”

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