Finally. The Missouri State Attorney General is prosecuting a company called DocX, a "mortgage processing" branch of Lender Processing Serivces. DocX is accused of 136 counts of forgery by the now-famous "Linda Green."
DocX signed the name "Linda Green" to at least 60 official documents filed in Boone County, MO. You may know Linda. She's a vice president at Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citibank. She's also a vice preisdent at Bank of American Home, Equity One, Option One, First Franklin, HomeBanc, and Saxon Mortgage. Yes, Ms. Green is a busy lady.
Here's a PDF of .10 documents signed by "Linda Green, Vice President." Each document has the same name written in a different signature. Each document was notarized and filed with a county court. From the
Kansas City Star
The documents involved [In the Boone County case] were deeds of release, which are issued when mortgages are foreclosed or paid off. They eliminate previous claims on assets.
In Nevada, a recent civil lawsuit alleged that former Lender Processing workers said they were paid as surrogate signers. In one complaint, filed by the Nevada attorney general, one former employee was quoted as saying she was paid $11 an hour “to sign somebody else’s signature on documents” and signed about 2,000 a day for months.
Lender Processing was sued in August 2011 by American Home Mortgage Servicing, which alleged that more than 30,000 residential mortgages around the country had “improper execution, notarization and recording of assignments of mortgage.” DocX had handled such work for American Home from April 2008 through November 2009, according to that lawsuit.
It would appear that putting a false signature on a legal document and filing it with a county court is actually illegal.
Lorraine Brown, the founder of Docx, was indicted by a grand jury on 136 counts, and if convicted could get up to seven years in prison and a fine of $10,000 for each forgery.
Oh, please, please, please. Just one perp walk where the perp is wearing a nice dress suit. Just one.