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PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Tuesday that the apparent leader of the "Arizona Mexican Mafia," Paul Eppinger, has confessed to five gang-related killings from the 1990s.

The confession came during a financial fraud investigation by the state.

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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 unemployment funds.

She says the scheme involved a number of Arizona inmates and their associates who submitted false claims to get benefits.

Eppinger, who is already serving a federal life sentence, has now been sentenced to 25 years for each of the five homicides.

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