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Mayes Official Ironically Arrested for USPS Package Theft

November 24, 2025 5:48 amDecember 5, 2025 3:04 pm

A high-ranking official in the Arizona Attorney General’s Office has resigned after being arrested in connection with a United States Postal Inspection Service investigation into a misdelivered package containing high-value jewelry. Vanessa Hickman, who served as the State Government Division...

Petersen Blasts Mayes for Wasteful Electors Case Appeal

November 21, 2025 3:24 pmDecember 5, 2025 3:04 pm

Attorney General Kris Mayes announced she will appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court in State of Arizona v. Ward et al., keeping the electors case active after a lower court ordered the indictment returned to a grand jury because of procedural...

Hamadeh Calls for Probe of AG Mayes over $200K Payday

November 17, 2025 12:18 pmNovember 26, 2025 7:03 am

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is now at the center of a national controversy as Congressman Abe Hamadeh (R-CD8) formally requests that the U.S. Department of Justice open a federal investigation into what he calls a “coordinated bribery and prosecutorial...

Petersen, Montenegro Allege Hobbs, Mayes ‘Impeachable Offenses’

November 14, 2025 2:32 pmNovember 24, 2025 11:31 am

Arizona’s political landscape erupted Thursday as Senate President Warren Petersen issued a blunt warning that Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes may have committed “impeachable offenses,” putting both officials under an unprecedented level of statewide — and now...

Mayes Jumps Into Strange Gagic-Mitchell Feud

November 13, 2025 4:49 pmNovember 24, 2025 11:02 am

Arizona Attorney General has jumped into the complex and increasingly strange legal and political conflict involving Phoenix attorney Vladimir Gagic, Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, and Mitchell’s fiancé, Paul Stout. Mayes’ intervention represents a notable escalation, with the dispute now...

Werner to Chair Senate Oversight for $2.8B Medicaid Fraud

October 1, 2025 10:16 amOctober 10, 2025 2:34 pm

Arizona State Senator Carine Werner (R-4), chair of the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services, is leading a Senate oversight investigation into the recently uncovered fraud in the state’s Medicaid program. A preliminary report revealed that the state had...

Court Delivers Major Blow to Mayes’ So-Called ‘Fake Elector’ Case

September 23, 2025 10:52 amOctober 3, 2025 11:20 am

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes suffered another devastating legal setback this week when the Arizona Court of Appeals declined to hear her appeal in the alternate elector case, effectively forcing the entire prosecution back to square one. The Monday ruling...