Florida AG Releases Additional Depositions In Ongoing State Robosigner Probe Into Allegedly Fraudulent Foreclosure Mill Practices

From the Office of the Florida Attorney General:

• Attorney General Bill McCollum [] released three additional sworn statements in the ongoing investigations into The Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson, P.A. and the Law Offices of David J. Stern, P.A. for their alleged involvement in presenting fabricated documents to the courts in foreclosure actions to obtain final judgments against homeowners. The office will continue to release statements as we receive them.(1)

Source: Attorney General Releases Additional Sworn Statements in the Investigations Involving David Stern and Marshall Watson.

For the depositions, see:

• Deposition of Kelly Scott (Probe of Law Office of David J. Stern),
• Deposition of Mary R. Cordova (Probe of Law Office of David J. Stern),
• Deposition of Jessica Cabrera (Probe of Law Office of Marshall Watson).

(1) See also Business Week: Witness: signatures were faked at foreclosure firm.

• A former secretary at a Florida law firm under investigation for fabricating foreclosure documents says the firm's office manager would sign her name to 1,000 files a day and sometimes would allow paralegals to sign her name for her when she got tired.

• Kelly Scott, a former assistant at the law offices of David Stern, says in a deposition released Monday that office manager Cheryl Salmons would sign 500 files in the morning and another 500 files in the afternoon without reviewing them and with no witnesses. Scott says paralegals would then collect the files and swap them with each other, signing them as witnesses even though they had already been notarized and executed.