Mayes wrote a letter from his office's criminal division to President Pro Tempore and Sen. T.J. Shope explaining that the state attorney general's office will, in fact, be probing Hobbs over a criminal scheme involving a housing developer and foster children throughout Arizona who are being sent to group homes.

"Thank you for your referral dated June 5, 2024, regarding Sunshine Residential Homes," reads the letter to Shope, signed by chief counsel Nick Klingerman.

"The Criminal Division of the Attorney General's Office is statutorily authorized to investigate the allegations and offenses outlined in your letter. To that end, the Attorney General's office will be opening an investigation."