Attorney pleads not guilty in forged documents case
Defense lawyer Vicki Greco pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 138 criminal charges in an alleged scheme to file forged court documents in misdemeanor cases involving prostitutes.
District Judge Stefany Miley set a March 16 status check in the case to select a trial date
Greco, 43, a member of the Nevada bar since September 2003, was released from the Clark County Detention Center Tuesday on $50,000 bail. She had surrendered Monday to Miley's marshal and then was booked into the detention center on an arrest warrant.
Greco was charged last week with a long list of felony and gross misdemeanor counts, including conspiracy to commit a crime, forgery, burglary, offering a false instrument for filing or record and destroying evidence.
Last week, Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo said investigators found that false documents were submitted in at least 41 of Greco's cases.
Las Vegas police raided Greco's home and law office in July seeking evidence that she filed phony certificates of completion for Las Vegas Justice Court-ordered counseling and community service on behalf of the prostitutes between 2008 and 2010.
The investigation is tied to the long-running criminal case against suspended defense lawyer Brian Bloomfield, who was charged with doing the same for his clients, mostly prostitutes, over the same period.
Bloomfield pleaded guilty to felony and gross misdemeanor charges in a similar courthouse scheme in December 2013 and later was temporarily suspended. He cooperated and is waiting to be sentenced.
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