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2:42 pm
Tue February 7, 2012

Missouri to prosecute company that falsified documents

Credit Attorney General's Office
Attorney General Chris Koster, who will prosecute the case.

The state of Missouri has filed criminal charges against a shuttered Georgia company accused of using fake signatures on phony foreclosure documents.

A Boone County grand jury on Friday issued a 136-count criminal indictment alleging forgery against DocX and its former president, Lorraine Brown. The company closed in 2010 amid criticism of mortgage companies signing legal documents not reviewed by its employees in a practice called robo-signing.

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