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PHOENIX<\/strong> – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes<\/strong><\/a> announced Tuesday that the apparent leader of the “Arizona Mexican Mafia,” Paul Eppinger, has confessed to five gang-related killings from the 1990s.<\/p>\n The confession came during a financial fraud investigation by the state.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Mayes said Eppinger admitted to his role in the homicides while being investigated for a scheme that defrauded the state and federal government of pandemic<\/strong><\/a> unemployment funds.<\/p>\n She says the scheme involved a number of Arizona inmates and their associates who submitted false claims to get benefits.<\/p>\n Eppinger, who is already serving a federal life sentence, has now been sentenced to 25 years for each of the five homicides.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Click here to learn more about this announcement<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a>Kris Mayes<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Tuesday that the apparent leader of the “Arizona Mexican…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,39401,1588,50,3546,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-214507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-kris-mayes","13":"tag-maricopa-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-people","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115177936851983149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}