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Paul Petersen s Marshallese co-defendant sentenced to Arizona prison

View Comments A woman who assisted former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen in operating an international adoption scheme was sentenced to two years in state prison. Lynwood Jennet, 47, a native of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, had worked for Petersen for six years. Jennet helped Petersen coordinate adoptions from the Marshall Islands to the United States. Once the women arrived in Arizona, Jennet was their translator, their driver as well as their medical contact, according to court documents. She also lived with them during their pregnancies in a house in Mesa owned by Petersen. While Petersen charged each adoptive family $35,000 or more, Jennet provided false information to Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state s Medicaid program for low-income residents. to pay for the births with tax dollars, according to court documents.

Petersen s Marshallese Adoption Fraud Scheme Co-Defendant Sentenced to Prison – Arizona Daily Independent

Jennet was sentenced to two years in prison and order to pay: $28,001.97 to AHCCCS $6,591.00 to the Arizona Department of Revenue (Failure to file Tax Return – Class 5 Felony) In April 2021, Paul Petersen was sentenced to five years in state prison for running the fraudulent adoption scheme. Petersen’s sentence will run consecutive to his federal sentence of six years. Arizona’s sentencing agreements were not part of a global settlement. According to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, Jennet helped Petersen arrange adoptions from the Marshall Islands. Even though Petersen charged families around $35,000 per adoption to cover medical expenses, Jennet helped the birthmothers apply for medical benefits through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) to pay for their births with tax dollars. The birthmothers should not have qualified for AHCCCS benefits because they were not Arizona residents. Between November 2015 and May 2019, AHCCCS paid for at leas

Paul Petersen update: Ex-politician s accomplice gets 2 years in adoption scheme

Paul Petersen update: Ex-politician s accomplice gets 2 years in adoption scheme ABC15 and last updated 2021-07-13 20:48:55-04 PHOENIX — A woman who acknowledged helping a former politician in an illegal adoption scheme involving women from the Marshall Islands was sentenced to two years in prison in Arizona. Lynwood Jennet helped submit false applications for the birth mothers to receive state-funded health coverage. She had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft charges for helping the women apply for benefits at the direction of Paul Petersen. Petersen is a Republican who served as Maricopa County assessor for six years and worked as an adoption attorney before resigning his elected post and pleading guilty in three states to crimes related to the scheme.

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