Attorney Randolph Goldberg promised victims of the housing crash that he would cut their mortgage payments and save their homes, but unknown to his clients was the fact that Goldberg was forging thousands of documents to keep his $1 million-a-month consumer bankruptcy practice on track, according to a Westlaw analysis published yesterday. Goldberg is now serving a two-year sentence for tax evasion, and he lost an appeal last week in which he sought to overturn sanctions imposed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Nevada. Goldberg's downfall stems from 2008, when Las Vegas's housing boom went bust and personal bankruptcy filings in the city skyrocketed. By 2009, Goldberg was filing 200 personal bankruptcies a month, or nearly one in 10 cases in Las Vegas, charging $5,000 each. Thanks to TV ads, he was doing 250 consultations a week, according to court records.
