KIRKWOOD, Mo. — A St. Louis lawyer was sentenced to more than two years in prison for forging judges' signatures and faking legal documents.
Andrew Gavin Wynne, 35, was sentenced to 31 months in prison and ordered to pay $351,000 in restitution Monday. He pleaded guilty in March to five counts of identity theft.
According to a press release from the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Wynne created false emails and documents with forged signatures for cases in St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County. The release said some of the fake documents claimed his clients were awarded money.
Most of the cases involved family court or divorce proceedings, according to documents filed by Missouri’s Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel.
The release said Wynne in one case forged a divorce decree that ordered the parties to have joint legal and physical custody and said his client was owed $900 per month in child support, a vehicle and a lump sum of $5,000.
At the time, Wynne was an associate with the Kirkwood firm Menees, Menees & Wynne, now known as Menees & Menees.
Hardy Menees said Wynne generally filed fake rulings in the middle of his cases and only two of the cases had final dispositions. He did not provide an exact number of cases affected.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
