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Tremors, MS, and Disease in Forgeries
I came across this article today. I think you’ll find it fascinating. It’s a discussion of how MS affects a prominent weather man up in New York. It’s actually good to watch. He has a good sense of humor, but he talks about the symptoms of shakiness in his hands…one hand more than the other. […]
Couple Says Dealership Forged Their Signatures
You know, forgery is in the news all the time, but this article is different because it involves one of our graduates from the International School. Wendy Carlson was hired to analyze the handwriting of some signatures involved in a dealership scandal in the town of Littleton, Colorado where some signatures were forged. At least […]
Lawyer commits forgery too!
I came across this article in a Las Vegas Newspaper, and it just reminds me of all the times in my career that I’ve seen notaries and attorneys involved in fraudulent documents. This case is about an attorney who intentionally stole $200,000 from someone’s estate who trusted him to manage it after he died. Can you imagine trusting someone […]
Are electronic signatures valid in court? (digital signature law)
This article extremely relevant to cases involving electronic pen pads, such as visa, mastercard transactions using a stylo instead of pen and paper. Original article found here. http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Jan/1/241481.html Electronic Signature Legislation Electronic Signature Legislation By Thomas J. Smedinghoff and Ruth Hill Bro of Baker & McKenzie LLP This article explores some of the questions we […]
2005 copyright symbol spoils $254,000 Clintonville scam
PPLETON — A Clintonville woman accused of forging documents that led to a $254,000 civil lawsuit will soon enter pleas to counts of forgery and lying while under oath. Tammy M. Lowney, 41, waived her right to the remainder of her preliminary hearing Wednesday in Outagamie County Court on three forgery counts and two counts related to false testimony. Attorneys started the hearing last month, but rescheduled due to time constraints. The case stems from a 2006 Waupaca County lawsuit filed by the owners of Friendship Valley Dairy, Christopher and Mary Therese Gilling of Marion. The Gillings sued Steven and Malia Lowney, claiming the couple owed them the money as documented in 1999 and 2000 promissory notes carrying their signatures. Continue reading
Australian Junior Rugby League loses $88,837 from forger… season must go on
JODY Sainsbury stole more than $160,000 from the Mackay Junior Rugby League and the Hastings Deering social club at Paget. And when she faced the District Court in Mackay to be sentenced yesterday she was going to tender four allegedly-forged references. So now she is under investigation for allegedly forging fake references. Sainsbury pleaded guilty to two charges of dishonestly causing a loss to the Mackay Junior Rugby League and Hastings Deering between July 1, 2007, and December 1, 2008. Crown prosecutor David Morters told the court that he had been provided on Thursday with copies of four references which Mrs Sainsbury's barrister was going to tender in court. One was said to be from her current employer, CQ Nurse, two were from representatives of Hastings Deering and there was another one from a representative of the Mackay State High School. Continue reading
Will Forger Gets One Year in Jail, Probation
More than three years after he produced a forged will after his girlfriend was fatally shot,Edward Blomfield - who pled guilty to the crime - was sentenced Tuesday. He will serve one year in Santa Barbara County Jail and five years of felony probation. Judge Brian Hill also granted District Attorney Mary Barron two additional requests: that Blomfield not be allowed to act in a fiduciary capacity for anyone and that any current or future employers know of his psychiatric condition. Authorities claim Blomfield forged the will of Beverly Graham after she was shot and killed in her apartment by Jennifer San Marcojust before San Marco went on a shooting spree at the Goleta U.S.Postal Service distribution center in January 2006, killing six others and then herself. The forged will left Graham’s entire estate, estimated to be worth $750,000, to Blomfield. Continue reading
Woman’s Caregiver Charged With Forgery
LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- A dead woman's caregiver was charged with forgery after Las Cruces police said she named herself to inherit a home, car and money. Las Cruces police detectives said in the months prior to the Aug. 2 death of Mary Fix, Maria E. Hobbs created a last will and testament naming herself as the recipient of the woman’s residence, a 1965 Ford Mustang and the funds from the woman’s bank account. Hobbs worked for Adult Protective Services, a division of New Mexico’s Aging and Long Term Services Department, and took care of Fix, who was suffering from advanced dementia, police said. Detectives discovered on the day Fix died, Hobbs took a $300 check from the woman and deposited it into her own checking account. The memo on the check, apparently written by Hobbs, stated the check was for “Mary’s car title and registration.” Continue reading
Judge slams mortgage company fraudulent note practice
Merscorp Inc., operator of the electronic-registration system that contains about half of all U.S. home mortgages, has no right to transfer the mortgages under its membership rules, a judge said. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Grossman in Central Islip, New York, in a decision he said he knew would have a “significant impact,” wrote that the membership rules of the company’s Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, don’t make it an agent of the banks that own the mortgages. “MERS’s theory that it can act as a ‘common agent’ for undisclosed principals is not supported by the law,” Grossman wrote in a Feb. 10 opinion. “MERS did not have authority, as ‘nominee’ or agent, to assign the mortgage absent a showing that it was given specific written directions by its principal.” Continue reading
In Nigeria, why divorce? Army condones forgery to end marriage
The forgery of court document is a criminal offence which carries a seven-year jail term. But the Nigerian Army does not seem to consider the offence such a big deal. When told how Paul Egbo, a Major in the army’s medical corps, allegedly forged divorce papers to enable him leave his wife and take up with another woman, a female army officer, an official letter from the Chief of Army staff said the offence is of no concern to the army. In May 2006, Mr Egbo, a native of Delta State, while serving in Maiduguri, Borno State, decided he wanted out of his 12-year marriage to Uche Egbo. He called Mrs. Egbo, a house wife and mother of their three children living in their home at the Ojo military cantonment in Lagos State, and told her that the marriage is over because God had told him to marry another woman. He then changed his salary account from which Mrs. Egbo and the children take money for their monthly upkeep. Mrs. Egbo remembers that for the next eighteen months, up till September 23, 2007, her husband and father of their children only came home once; and that was to pack his belongings. Continue reading