by Structured Settlement Watchdog®
Jose Manuel Camacho Jr, the disgraced fraudster Miami lawyer arrested last Fall, who admitted to forging 7 Broward County Florida judge’s signatures on multiple structured settlement transfer orders, will be changing his plea, and will be sentenced on August 26, 2016
Camacho, the now a disbarred lawyer, is charged with multiple count 3rd degree felonies for Uttering a Forged instrument in a bizarre series of events leave one scratching one’s head. Among the bizarro revelations surrounding the case were the arresting agency employing Camacho’s ex-wife and whited out notary signatures and forgeries that weren’t even close.
The structured settlement secondary market did its best to keep Camacho’s forgeries under wraps for 3 months before I busted the story open on this blog in January 2016
Coming on the heels of the 100+ New York forged structured settlement transfer orders involving an employee of New York City’s Paris & Chaiken the Camacho forgeries were an unmitigated PR disaster. My reporting was followed by a news report in the Sun Sentinel on February 22, 2016