Ex-Sylvania lawyer guilty of attempted records tampering

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Ex-Sylvania (OH) lawyer guilty of attempted records tampering


BY ERICA BLAKE
BLADE STAFF WRITER

More than four years after originally being charged with crimes associated with her dealings with an elderly client, a former Sylvania lawyer entered a plea in Lucas County Common Pleas Court Wednesday.

Linda S. Cook, 60, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted tampering with records. She faces up to 1 1/2 years in prison when sentenced Sept. 29 by Judge Gary Cook, who is not related to the defendant.

Wednesday, Cook admitted in court that she falsified a document that she later filed with the county recorder's office. Specifically, she filed a deed that should have been dated in 2001 but instead was dated 1998 to avoid federal review of the transaction.

"On July 12, 2001, I attempted to falsify a deed with the knowledge that it would facilitate a fraud," Cook said.

The resolution comes years after she was charged and after the case was reviewed by several higher courts.

Cook was indicted July 18, 2007, by a grand jury on one count each of tampering with records and theft from an elderly person or disabled adult. But the case was put on hold after county prosecutors appealed a decision by Judge Cook that dismissed the tampering charge because of statute of limitations.

The decision was reversed in September, 2009, by the 6th District Court of Appeals and in December, the Ohio Supreme Court agreed the original charge should be reinstated.

The lawyer had been disbarred just prior to being criminally charged for allegedly falsifying the deed to an elderly client's farm. Additionally, she was charged with transferring the property to herself before giving the farm to her client's church as she was instructed to do. The transfer allowed her to take charitable deductions for the gift.

As part of the plea agreement, the theft charge will be dismissed at her sentencing.

Assistant County Prosecutor Michael Narges said the victim has since died. He said the plea was approved by representatives of her estate.

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Editor's note: The scum sucking bottom feeders in the Tyler case are doing the same thing as this OH ex-attorney.  Will the Cook County Court System punish them? Of course not! They allow the corruption to continue on and on and on! Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com