LAKE COUNTY, Ind. – A 37-year-old Indiana woman has been arrested in a fraud case involving alleged fake court documents and payments made to a Merrillville law office.
Indiana fraud charges
Heather Ann Textor faces 45 charges, including five Level 5 felony fraud counts, 37 Level 6 felony counts and three Class A misdemeanor counts.
Heather Ann Textor
According to court documents, Textor worked as a legal secretary at the Law Office of Weiss, Schmidgall and Hires. Prosecutors accuse her of taking money from clients while falsely claiming she was handling expungements, driver’s license matters and other legal services.
Investigators said some clients received fake expungement orders and other documents that appeared to carry judges’ signatures. The documents allegedly were not filed with the courts.
The charges also accuse Textor of forging bond assignment forms and…
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