MONROE, New York — Town Justice Lurlyn Winchester was arrested Wednesday on charges that she made false statements to a mortgage lender and gave falsified documents to investigators, all to conceal that she lived in Rockland County and not in Monroe.
Winchester, released on $50,000 bail bond after appearing in federal court in White Plains, is accused of presenting phony checks to a bank in 2015 to deceive the lender into thinking she and her husband were renting out their New City home.
At the time, the couple was seeking a mortgage for a condominium in Monroe so Winchester could say she met the residency requirement for a town judge, according to the complaint.
Winchester, an attorney with a New City office, claimed to have moved from New City to a Monroe town house shortly before she was elected town justice in 2013.
Authorities say she fabricated a lease and phony rent payments for her New City house after they began investigating her residency.
