Woman Who Filed Forged Court Docs To Stave Off Eviction Sentenced: DA

SOUND BEACH, NY — A Sound Beach woman was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to filing fraudulent court orders with the forged signatures of a Suffolk County judge to stave off eviction, District Attorney Ray Tierney said.

According to the DA, Eleanor Blakley-Whaley, 61, was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty in April to third-degree criminal possession of a forged Instrument; she filed a forged judicial order purportedly issued by the Suffolk County District Court with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, Tierney said.

According to court documents and the defendant’s admissions during her guilty plea allocution,
on June 29, 2022, Blakley-Whaley consented to the issuance of a warrant of eviction from her
home, located in the Town of Brookhaven, by the Suffolk County District Court.

The warrant of eviction was stayed by the court until October 31, 2022; between November 1, 2022, and March 30, 2023, Blakley-Whaley filed six forged judicial orders stating that the eviction was stayed, Tierney said.

Prior to the case, on January 26, 2022, Blakley-Whaley pleaded guilty, in an unrelated case, to second-degree grand larceny, a felony, and was sentenced to three years of probation, the DA said. At the time of her arrest on the latest charges, Blakley-Whaley was serving her sentence of probation and thus, the arrest and criminal conduct violated the terms of her probation sentence, Tierney said. On Monday, Acting County Court Judge James McDonaugh sentenced Blakley-Whaley to the year in jail, the DA said.

She was represented by Eric Sackstein, Esq.; Sackstein declined to comment.

"Let this sentence serve as a warning to anyone who would falsify court records that my office takes these crimes seriously," Tierney said. "I thank my prosecutors for bringing this defendant to justice."