Prosecutors have launched an investigation into a complaint that more than 1,000 deeds for foreclosed homes in Maryland were forgeries.

The complaint was filed last week by a paralegal formerly employed by the law firm Shapiro & Burson. The complaint alleges that attorneys who were supposed to be signing deeds and key foreclosure paperwork for Marlyand properties instead instructed others to falsify their signatures on the documents.

"We're looking at this case very closely," said Ramon v. Korinoff, assistant to the Prince George's County state's attorney. "It is very troubling."

State regulators said this week they have also received complaints about alleged foreclosure-documentation problems at the Baltimore law firm of Friedman & MacFadyen. Since last summer, a total of 16 notaries at several firms have either stepped down or stripped of their commissions after complaints that the workers falsely attested to witnessing attorneys sign foreclosure documents. 

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