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Field notes on deed fraud, document authentication, and how to stop both.
Writing from the co-founder on what is happening in document fraud, what does not work, what does, and where policy and technology are heading. New posts weekly.
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Case study · May 24, 2026
How a fake notary stamp took two homes in Washington.
In July 2025, a federal judge in Washington sentenced Jeffrey M. Young-Bey to 138 months in prison for stealing two residential properties in the District, without ever meeting the people whose names appeared on the deeds that transferred title to him. The details of the scheme line up cleanly with where every deed theft is going to fail — and where the architecture Veritable Data licenses would have stopped it.
Licensing
The architecture behind the writing is licensable.
The posts here are written from inside an active patent licensing practice. If a topic touches your industry — title insurance, notarization, document recording, professional credentialing, or any of the document categories U.S. Patent No. 12,518,331 applies to — there is a commercial path to deploying the architecture under license.