Video of Council Member Garodnick Announcing Reform of Fraudulent Process Service on September 3, 2009. Garidnick wants legislation requiring New York process servers and agencies to have a surety bond, or insurance in order to be licensed due to rampant and fraudulent default judgments.

As a specific case in point, a White Plains, NY woman by the name of Margaret Murtagh has filed a complaint against a law firm and process serving company for… allegedly filing a false affidavit of service stating that she was served a complaint regarding a collections matter.

This is not exactly a new issue in New York involving defendants Zwicker & Associates and American Legal Process. In July of 2009 the New York State Attorney General filed a suit against thirty-five different law firms, including defendant Zwicker, all of which employed American Legal Process. This particular suit alleges almost 100,00 default judgments were entered in the New York Courts based upon false affidavits prepared by process servers who were employed by American Legal Process.

To view the latest complaint see: http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/10/20/DefaultJs.pdf