A Las Vegas woman is accused of posing as a lawyer, filing fraudulent documents in court and even forging signatures, shocking her former “clients.”
On Tuesday, Las Vegas Metro Police Department officers arrested Senia Paulsen, a 36-year-old woman, on suspicion of posing as a lawyer for the past two years. According to LVMPD press releaseMs. Poulsen began the scheme in January 2022 and has since received payments for legal services she was not authorized to perform, “defrauding multiple victims” in the process.
Although Paulsen described himself as an attorney, he was never registered with the Nevada State Bar and was said to have worked under the Bar. name Mr. Senia del Pozo and Mr. Senia Carrillo are said to have filed several lawsuits, including adoption, name change, and divorce.
In one instance, Poulsen collected $1,500, including a deposit, from a divorcing couple and then falsified documents related to their case. Court records stated:. When one of the two asked for a copy of one of the documents, Poulsen reportedly became assertive and retorted in a text message, “I've been doing this job for 16 years.” .
After the couple's divorce was apparently finalized, the woman asked Paulsen why the name change had not been processed. Poulsen reportedly blamed the delay on the recent death of a Las Vegas judge.
“Judge was reassigned to commit suicide a few weeks ago,” she reportedly wrote in a text message.
In another example, Poulsen allegedly borrowed nearly $16,000 from a co-worker to pay for the medical expenses of an apparently ill father and to arrange travel for a suspected death in the family. Not only are the stories about her father and her deceased loved ones patently false, but Ms. Paulsen instead told the story of her husband, who happens to be a Las Vegas police officer, and several of her friends. and allegedly ran out of money while on vacation to the Stagecoach Country Festival in California.
When a co-worker asked Poulsen for repayment, Poulsen allegedly forged an email from Chase Bank.
According to court documents, Poulsen had a significant habit of forging signatures and documents. According to reports, she forged the judge's signature on her adoption application and divorce, and she may have been pretending to be a notary even after her license expired in 2016. Police announced that there was a sex.
Poulsen faces 17 charges, including forgery, theft, creating and delivering a mock legal document, and providing a false document for submission to a government agency. And, as expected, her alleged actions don't sit well with those currently tasked with handling her case.
The district judge initially presiding over Poulsen's case specifically took exception to Poulsen's alleged messages that seemed to make light of his colleague's suicide.
“I have a lot of incidents in front of me that I think are offensive, but I'm moving past them,” he said. Court of Chancery Judge Amy Cellini “However, the person she is referring to in this case is a colleague of mine who continues to use his death as an excuse to defraud others.”
Mr. Cellini ultimately recused himself from the case. Paulsen was scheduled to appear before a different judge Thursday morning, KLAS reported. As of Thursday afternoon, the results of that hearing had not yet been reported.
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