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Ex-Arizona Official Gets Six Years for Smuggling Pregnant Women Into U.S. to Sell Their Babies

‘GET-RICH QUICK SCHEME’

“You became complicit in selling babies,” a judge told the former Maricopa County assessor and adoption lawyer who pleaded guilty in an illegal fraud scheme.

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