Reprimand sought in 'robo-signing' cases
A grievance panel has recommended that one of the three lawyers linked to so-called “robo-signing” of mortgage foreclosures be disciplined.
The action put forth by the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar is in response to a 2010 revelation that led to a national mortgage-foreclosure scandal involving robo-signing, according to the Portland Press Herald. That term describes the robotic process of mass producing false and forged documents related to mortgage foreclosures, including accusations of signature fraud.
The panel recommended that attorney Paul Peck of Portland law firm Drummond & Drummond have a written reprimand placed in his record. Peck failed to take “immediate and effective action,” the panel said, after he learned that a GMAC Mortgage employee was signing thousands of legal documents to foreclose on people’s homes without first checking to assure the documents were accurate and without having the papers authenticated.
The grievance panel also recommended that the complaints against the other two attorneys, Philip Mancini, also of Drummond & Drummond of Portland, and Alexander Saksen of Pittsburgh, Pa., be dismissed. Saksen, who no longer works for the firm, was found to have been involved only peripherally. The lawyers represented GMAC.
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