The embattled attorney was indicted in 2012 on 46 counts of theft and forgery charges for falsifying inflated payment vouchers submitted to the courts for her services. The indictments reportedly included forging judges’ signatures and double-billing the county in some cases. The district attorney is quoted in 2012 saying the investigation had uncovered about $120,000 dollars in incorrectly processed vouchers.
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San Antonio Defense Attorney Pleads Guilty To Theft And Forgery
We don't see forging of judge's names by lawyers too often - other than the phony signings by oourt clerks.
ReplyDeleteHope she gets a good stay - in jail.
In the Justice for Jenny case, the hand-picked guardian ad litem "for" Jenny Hatch billed $41,359.34, at an hourly rate of $200 per hour.
ReplyDeleteAll to represent someone with Down syndrome whose total income was SSI at a maximum of about $700 (and Jenny wasn't even getting the maximum).
This GAL had a blatant conflict of interest -- she was a former member of the Board of Directors of the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board, which instigated the guardianship petition.
This GAL objected to her OWN CLIENT testifying!
This GAL did not even object to improper jurisdiction!
Jonathan Martinis, the attorney who rescued Jenny after a full year of this unethical, corrupt nonsense, served Jenny pro bono. He charged NOTHING to do the job that the GAL "for" Jenny should have done a year earlier.
Greedy lawyers, selling their own clients down the river, and doing a worse job than somebody willing to work FOR FREE.
Seems like an easy place to cut the budget -- cut out these fraudsters, help the clients, and save public funds. A no brainer.
Wow, Hilda Valadez had better start packing for a long trip to the big house.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting, NASGA