Massive Service Frauds Alleged in NY

A woman who says a law firm and process server lied about serving her with a collections complaint claims that "nearly 100,000 default judgments have been entered in the New York Courts based upon false affidavits from process servers working for defendant ALP [American Legal Process]."

Margaret Murtagh says that in July the New York attorney general sued 35 law firms that used American Legal Process because "nearly 100,000 default judgments have been entered in the New York Courts based upon false affidavits from process servers" working for it.

Murtagh claims she was a victim of identity theft in 2004 and found unauthorized charges on her American Express card. She says AmEx refused to remove all the disputed charges and hired Zwicker & Associates to collect.

Murtagh says Zwicker is one of the law firms that was sued for working with ALP; she claims it falsified an affidavit of service to obtain a default judgment against her.

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