“Surrogate signers” signed countless foreclosure docs - with someone else’ name

Full Deposition of Tywanna Thomas’ Mother, Cheryl Denise Thomas of DOCX, LPS

Up to a 1,000 documents a day.

“Surrogate Signers”

Notary fraud.

You know, the usual…


Palm Beach Post

At Lender Processing Services workers who signed tens of thousands of sworn foreclosure affidavits with someone else’ name were called “surrogate signers”, according to Cheryl Denise Thomas, a former LPS worker who admitted to notarizing as many as 1,000 sworn affidavits daily - often without witnessing the signature.


Thomas said despite “raised eyebrows” her supervisors never used the word “forge” and repeatedly told workers the practice of signing someone else’ name on a sworn affidavit was legal. Thomas detailed the company’s foreclosure document processing practices during a deposition in an Orange county foreclosure case on March 23.

“They didn’t say forge the name. They just said this is legal,” Thomas said. “This person is going to be this person’s surrogate signer because this person has a lot to do.”

And....

She also said her daughter, Tywanna Thomas - whose name appears on thousands of sworn affidavits - also worked at LPS along with Thomas’ nephew.




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