SAGINAW — The name “Linda Green” was hard to miss.
Saginaw County Register of Deeds Mildred M. Dodak saw multiple signatures of the woman’s name on dozens, and perhaps hundreds of mortgage documents, in her office — the same name the CBS News program “60 Minutes” disclosed in April is part of a so-called mortgage document signing mill, Docx based in Alpharetta, Ga.
Dodak grew suspicious when she saw “Linda Green,” among other names, signed in at least four different cursive styles as a bank vice president on mortgage assignments, a loan obligation transferred from a lender to another institution. Docx, which the Lansing State Journal reported is now defunct, had prepared the documents, Dodak said.
A phone listing for Docx was no longer in service Thursday.
“There’s obvious fraud in these documents,” she said, with a stack of about 200 pages with questionable signatures on her desk, an example known as robo-signing. “We have a ton of them.”
And there could be more, she said. “I think there’s a huge amount out there, but we haven’t done an extensive search,” Dodak said.
The Register of Deeds office has searched documents from 2008 through the first six months of 2009.
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