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Jury convicts Florida woman who forged signatures of judges on fake documents

Niceville.comApril 15, 2023Updated:September 15, 20233 Mins Read
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FLORIDA – A jury has convicted an Osceola County mortgage loan officer of bank fraud and aggregated identity theft charges that involved the forging of judges’ signatures on fabricated court documents.

United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that a federal jury has found Omayra Ujaque, 52, of St. Cloud, guilty of three counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.

Ujaque faces a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment for each bank fraud count and a mandatory two-year sentence for the aggravated identity theft count. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 5, 2023.

Ujaque was indicted on February 15, 2023.

According to evidence presented at the trial, Ujaque, in her capacity as a licensed mortgage loan officer, created and executed a mortgage fraud scheme targeting the financial institution where she worked. To ensure that otherwise unqualified borrowers were approved for mortgage loans, Ujaque falsified the borrowers’ income by fabricating or inflating the amounts of their monthly child support payments on mortgage loan applications that she signed and certified to the financial institution’s underwriting department.

In furtherance of her scheme, Ujaque reportedly created fictitious Final Judgments of Dissolution of Marriage and Final Orders Modifying Child Support that fraudulently represented that the borrowers were entitled to receive non-existent monthly child support payments.

Ujaque then used the names of judges from the Circuit Court of the Ninth District of Florida and forged their signatures on the fabricated Final Judgments of Dissolution of Marriage or Final Orders Modifying Child Support, prosecutors said.

According to evidence presented at the trial, Ujaque also created bogus Florida Department of Revenue Statements listing fraudulent monthly child support payments, as well as phony prepaid debit card statements listing fake borrower withdrawals of the non-existent monthly child support payments.

“In most cases, the borrowers did not, in fact, have the listed children and/or had never been married,” said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.

“Ujaque submitted bogus paperwork to the financial institution to support the false monthly income on the loan applications. Based on Ujaque’s misrepresentations, the financial institution approved and funded the mortgage loan.”

This case was investigated by Federal Housing Finance Agency – Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Office of Inspector General, and the Florida Office of Financial Regulation. Special Assistant United States Attorney Chris Poor is prosecuting it.

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