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Mayes Cleared Hobbs. Now They Both Have a PR Problem.

House Speaker Steve Montenegro says the Attorney General’s Sunshine investigation left key evidence unexplained. He isn’t the only one asking questions.

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Aug 31, 2026
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes closed her criminal investigation into Governor Katie Hobbs and Sunshine Residential Homes without filing charges.

That did not close the story.

Mayes announced August 21 that investigators had reviewed more than 100,000 documents, campaign-finance records, procurement records, bank documents, state emails and chats and…

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