Prosecutors for the state have begun an investigation into the potential forgeries, which account for over 1,000 home foreclosures in the state. ''We’re looking at this case very closely,'' said the chief of staff to Prince George County’s state attorney.
Non-attorney legal staffers have been involved in an array of allegations regarding improper foreclosures. The most prominent coming out of David J. Stern’s Plantation Law Firm, which has been accused of ''robo-signing'' thousands of foreclosure documents.
According to regulators in the state of Maryland, there have also been complaints about mishaps with foreclosure documents at the Baltimore-based firm Friedman & MacFadyen. Already this year, four notaries in the state have resigned after receiving inquiries from the Maryland secretary of state office. Since the summer of 2010, 16 notaries at several different law firms have resigned or been involuntarily stripped of their commissions as a result of the foreclosure-related accusations.
The Maryland Attorney General’s office did not comment on any specific cases.