White-Collar Crime
Lawyer Charged with Forging Staffer's Signature to Help Adoptive Parents Get Child Health Coverage
A Florida lawyer with a clean disciplinary record has been criminally charged based on allegations she forged a staffer’s signature on power-of-attorney documents in 2009.
The documents allegedly were used by adoptive parents who were Amy Newby’s clients to obtain medical coverage for their child, the Times-Union reported. They reportedly paid Newby $1,600.
The 39-year-old Jacksonville lawyer is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond on charges of forgery and fraudulent use of personal identification information.
An unidentified individual who answered the phone at Newby’s firm declined to comment today when contacted by the newspaper.
