Indiana State Police said a woman is now facing 42 felony charges for creating fake expungement orders and stealing money from victims who thought they were clients at the law firm where she worked.
Indiana State Police said Heather Anne Textor, 41, of Lowell, Indiana, has been charged with 42 counts of fraud, forgery and counterfeiting, and three misdemeanors for fraud and theft, for a multi-year scheme in which she would take cash from people seeking legal help getting their criminal records expunged and then providing falsified and forged documents of expungements that never actually happened.
State police said Textor worked at the front desk of the law firm Weiss, Schmidgall and Hires, P.C. in Merrillville, Indiana, and was typically the first point of contact for potential clients. According to police and prosecutors, Textor would take cash as downpayment for the firm’s services from victims seeking to have some sort of criminal charge expunged from their record. Police emphasized expungement services are common and can apply to anything from non-violent criminal charges to traffic violations.
“There are lots of reasons to want that,” said Sgt. Glen Fifield, public information officer for Indiana State Police…