Last week, after she was informed of the findings by both handwriting experts, Hudson declined through her attorney to comment on whether she signed Cooper's name. Lyons has declined to answer questions about this and other forged signatures that have surfaced in some of his financial dealings. I'm not aware of it. I've never posed that question to him, and at this time I do not see any reason to pose it. In many large organizations, he said, assistants routinely sign letters for busy executives.
People sign the governor's signature all the time.
Cooper, though, has told the Times he has never authorized anyone to sign his name. The Bethel Village letter is at least the fourth time Roscoe Cooper's signature has been falsified on a convention document. They asked Lyons' representatives for proof that Cooper's signature was real. The assurances never came. Lyons resigned from the project's board and withdrew the letter from HUD, but it was too late.