Texas investigating notary over failure to sign Stormy Daniels nondisclosure agreement

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Officials in Texas are investigating the nondisclosure agreement signed by Stormy Daniels after it was revealed that the notary did not sign or date the document, the Dallas Morning News reported Monday.

Texas notaries are required to sign and date agreements, as well as provide a certificate verifying those who sign documents.

However, notary Erica Jackson is now facing an investigation after she failed to do all three for the 2016 nondisclosure agreement regarding Daniels's alleged affair with President Trump. Jackson's stamp is on the document.

"Attaching your seal to a document without a notarial certificate constitutes good cause for the secretary of state to take action against your notary commission," a Texas official said in a letter to Jackson, sent last week.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-investigating-notary-over-failure-to-sign-stormy-daniels-nondisclosure-agreement-report/ar-BBK8KY2?ocid=spartandhp

[Angry Dragon]

1. Houston, we have a problem

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. It might be a forged notary seal..

Knowing Trump's lawyers, anything is possible.

[EffieBlack]

6. Was there even a seal?

Most notarized documents contain both the ink-stamp and an embossed seal. I can't tell from looking at the document if there's a seal.

If there's no seal, it's really suspicious.

[brush]

3. Looking more and more like that NDA is invalid. No trump/Dennison signature and no notary one either

[Kirk Lover]

4. Now isn't this interesting? n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Very curious.

The notary says she has no recollection of this. Notarys in Texas as required to keep a book with a record of each notarization. (I'm a Texas notary, so kind of familiar with all this.)
She was either very sloppy and didn't record it or sign and date like she's supposed to, or perhaps the stamp is a forgery copied from another document.

[EffieBlack]

7. Do you have to use an embossed seal in Texas?

I can't imagine a notary simply ink-stamping a document and doing nothing else. As you know, the process for notarizing a document is rather precise and almost ritualistic. There's the witnessing or attesting to the signature. Then the signing and stamping.

I'm also a notary (because I'm an attorney) and I always sign the document first, then stamp it with ink and finally emboss by seal so that at least part of it is imprinted onto my signature.

Wouldn't it be odd for you to be asked to notarize a document and then just stamp it with your ink stamp and then pack up and walk away?

[Liberal In Texas]

8. No, you don't have to emboss.

It also occurred to me that if someone knew where she kept her stamper they could have "borrowed" it and done some unauthorized illicit "notarizing".

[EffieBlack]

9. Interesting.

They should be able to get this sorted out pretty quickly since Stormy certainly knows whether she appeared in front of a notary.