Editor's note: None of the check forgers who forged Alice R. Gore's annuity checks were ever punished. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Woman Pleads Guilty To Forging Legislator's Will
Woman Pleads Guilty To Forging Legislator's Will
Sandra Evette Richards
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com)--A former Memphis Fire Department chief has pleaded guilty to forging documents she represented to be the will of former state Rep. Ulysses Jones who died in 2010.
Sandra Evette Richards, 49, was sentenced to eight years of probation and must pay $23,986.59 in restitution for litigation costs incurred by the children of Jones who successfully contested the forged will in Probate Court in 2011.
She also must return a necklace belonging to Jones’s daughter.
Richards pleaded guilty to felony charges of forgery over $60,000, tampering with or fabricating evidence, and aggravated perjury.
Cases for four other defendants are still pending.
In the Probate Court hearing four years ago, a judge ruled the will submitted by Richards was a forgery. She had testified that she was Jones’s fiancé and that she had helped him write the will, which left the bulk of his $100,000 estate to her.
Jones’s former wife rebutted that testimony, saying she and Jones had continued to live together after their divorce in 1982 and that they planned to remarry.
Two forensic document examiners certified by the court as experts testified that the signature on the will that supposedly belonged to Ulysses Jones was a forgery.
The probate judge awarded the estate to Jones’s two adult children who said their father left no will.
Jones, who represented District 98 in Memphis, died in November of 2010 of complications from pneumonia at age 59. He also was a battalion chief with the Memphis Fire Department.
Sandra Evette Richards, 49, was sentenced to eight years of probation and must pay $23,986.59 in restitution for litigation costs incurred by the children of Jones who successfully contested the forged will in Probate Court in 2011.
She also must return a necklace belonging to Jones’s daughter.
Richards pleaded guilty to felony charges of forgery over $60,000, tampering with or fabricating evidence, and aggravated perjury.
Cases for four other defendants are still pending.
In the Probate Court hearing four years ago, a judge ruled the will submitted by Richards was a forgery. She had testified that she was Jones’s fiancé and that she had helped him write the will, which left the bulk of his $100,000 estate to her.
Jones’s former wife rebutted that testimony, saying she and Jones had continued to live together after their divorce in 1982 and that they planned to remarry.
Two forensic document examiners certified by the court as experts testified that the signature on the will that supposedly belonged to Ulysses Jones was a forgery.
The probate judge awarded the estate to Jones’s two adult children who said their father left no will.
Jones, who represented District 98 in Memphis, died in November of 2010 of complications from pneumonia at age 59. He also was a battalion chief with the Memphis Fire Department.
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